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Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:50 am

Just a nice to have...

With WiFi 6 / ax having barely been introduced into Mikrotik harware lineup as of this general message. I read Wi-Fi 7 is not far off.
Further reading I see Mikrotik's favorite supplier Qualcomm is now producing chips with Wi-Fi 7 onboard. ( IPQ9574 / PQ9554 / etc etc)
Would it not be great to see MT get on the front foot and start implementing some of these chips into upcoming products( even if RoS is not ready just yet ). And I would think ideally into MT's ceiling mounted gear 1st up(CaP AC/ Cap XL etc)..
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Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be), Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax),
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"Qualcomm says the new WiFi 7 Networking Pro SoCs can run Openwrt with Linux Kernel 5.4. With up to 2000 clients, the Networking Pro 1620 is designed for highly-congested venues (e.g. stadiums), enterprise, small-to-medium business, and prosumer home environments. The Networking Pro 1220 and 820 both target enterprise, SMB, prosumer, and premium home mesh systems, while the Networking Pro 620 is better suited for enterprise, SMB, gaming, and home mesh systems."
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:17 pm

For me in that tabel the 6GHz is the most interesting improvement, as there is more interfering 5GHz around us already. Wifi 6E , but probably need Wifi 7 to implement 6GHz properly.
The other things are more incremental gains, that will need undisturbed signal for those high MCS encoding, IMHO.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:42 am

I seriously doubt that Mikrotik will come out with a "WiFi 7" product in less than 2 or 3 years from now.
It also looks like Mikrotik totally missed the "Wi-Fi 6e" market.

Some ( non-Mikrotik ) WiFi 7 , Wi-Fi 7 products are shipping right now.

IMO , Mikrotik has great reliable wireless products for Wi-Fi 5 products but hardly anything for Wi-Fi 6. I've been waiting for years for Mikrotik to make a product that operates in the 6 GHz to low 7-GHz bands.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:51 am

Well to be fair TPLINK just live streamed its wifi7 product release this past week or so, and none of the business class APs are showing up on their websites yet.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Fri Nov 18, 2022 1:02 am

Well to be fair TPLINK just live streamed its wifi7 product release this past week or so, and none of the business class APs are showing up on their websites yet.
Dont forget TP-LINK mention 2024 as the year expected for wi-fi 7
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Fri Nov 18, 2022 5:36 am

Will we ever get a decent MU-MIMO and OFDMA?
New standards are just broader channels and more chains to show more numbers on the paper. 4-8-16 chains give a lot of throughput but have anyone seen a wireless client with more than 2*2 MIMO?
I hardly believe that one can't find a free 5GHz channel indoors. Is it so important to have 6-7GHz?
MU-MIMO is not working so what is the different?
Just a broader channel and higher potential MCS (u hardly get)
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:58 am

Of all the new bells and whistles coming with WiF7, I'm most optimistic about MU-MIMO because it mostly relies on AP's capabilities and it isn't impossible to build AP with large array of antennae (which will make AP huge or ugly or both). But that doesn't increase speed for clients when there's only very few active at a time (i.e. in typical SOHO case). So the benefit of it will only be there for large commercial installations.

The rest of features are, as already written, harder to achieve and it's quite likely that we'll see even larger discrepancy between theoretical capacity and reality.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Sat Nov 19, 2022 2:20 am

Noting the expected 2024 timeframe for most manufacturers to have product(s) ready.
It would be now where the R&D teams should be getting there sample/test boards ready for a ~1year turn-around to market.
Of all the new bells and whistles coming with WiF7, I'm most optimistic about MU-MIMO because it mostly relies on AP's capabilities and it isn't impossible to build AP with large array of antennae (which will make AP huge or ugly or both). But that doesn't increase speed for clients when there's only very few active at a time (i.e. in typical SOHO case). So the benefit of it will only be there for large commercial installations.
As I stated earlier, probably a good initial product would be the Cap XL(RBcAPGi-5acD2nD-XL) type of product to get this gear into.
I currently run a campus with about 60 roof mounted MT AP's at the moment, and could easily see the new WiFi-7 boards being utilized in 2 years time..
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:35 am

yeah... 320mhz @ 4096qam with an 16x16 array....

the baseband/DSP alone will burn a lot of power...

the only "good" thing about "wifi7" is the "MU" part, and maybe some improvements to how OFDMA works.

the laws of physics will keep us closer to 40mhz@2x2 streams for most applications.


i would rather have working wave2+capsman for the existing AX line and CapAC.
That will have some real impact in real scenarios, with real phones that real people have from the last 5+ years
would make a lot more people happy that way (let the half a dozen wifi{next} enthusiasts suffer with tplink for a while)
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:46 am

Why no one is talking about MLO.... That for me is the biggest improvement on Wifi7, at least on performance even without a huge Channel width..
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Sun Jan 15, 2023 9:31 am

320Mb channel width? ... say goodbye to 16 channels at once ... a few devices will "kill" whole block of flats especially if default configuratin set the max power "just to be safe not to be weekest one".
BTW ... what channel combintaion in 5GHz spectrum will let using 320MHz mode?
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Sun Jan 15, 2023 3:02 pm

The cAP AC XL that was released in 2022 is Wifi ACv1 with no upgrade path.

So 2014 radio standard... 8 years later.

The audience wifi wave2 driver would bring it to ACv2. A 2016 standard. Which they are just getting into caps-man in 2023... 7 years late.

Outside of the 60Ghz PtP line... It's pretty hard to take Mikrotik WiFi seriously anymore.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:36 am

So wifi7 is now here. What does it look like?
Is there already hardware with 6 GHz?
I've had your hardware with 60 GHz in the house for many years and would love to have everything from a single source.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:05 am

wifi 6 started in 2019 and MT has new products now. Wifi 7 started now so wait 4-5 yers....
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:02 pm

Not that long. AX took longer, since we had to move from our own drivers to chipset manufacturer drivers. From now on with wifi.npk package, it will be much easier.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:05 pm

Ahh so you are at work Normands, still waiting for the detailed response to this post ( you can use email if you prefer ) viewtopic.php?p=1046445#p1046445
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:24 pm

Looking at some of the MT YT videos, and the consumer products line up
I come to conclusion that MT is targeting products that "wider public/consumers"
will buy, rather then creating "latest" products .......

Or, as it's evident from the YT videos, operators or large ISP's in bulk
at least for "consumer grade products (SOHO)".


I could be wrong ....
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:26 pm

Ahh so you are at work Normands, still waiting for the detailed response to this post ( you can use email if you prefer ) viewtopic.php?p=1046445#p1046445
I am waiting for some sort of "blanket refund" for the CRS354.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:52 pm

Just put it down as a business loss, sending you postage to send to my location. :-)
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:09 pm

Just put it down as a business loss, sending you postage to send to my location. :-)
Its not something I would consider funny.

viewtopic.php?t=160561&start=300
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:21 pm

Just put it down as a business loss, sending you postage to send to my location. :-)
Its not something I would consider funny.

viewtopic.php?t=160561&start=300
I read the thread, couldnt find one single mention of supout report let alone the 100s I expected to see.
Also some folks not reporting issues is weird and sounds like production quality more than anything else.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:19 pm

Maybe it's time for cAP be...

https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/products/u7-pro
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:38 pm

Only when I get my wifi7 smartphone which is what vendors should be aiming for in the home market.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:10 am

Maybe it's time for cAP be...

https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/products/u7-pro

The U7 Pro will have even more issues than its predecessor since on the 6 GHz band client devices' maximum allowed EIRP will be lower than access points' therefore APs need higher gain antenna for the 6 GHz band than for the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz in order to maintain their RCPI advantage over mobile client devices.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:11 am

... client devices' maximum allowed EIRP will be lower than access points' therefore APs need higher gain antenna for the 6 GHz band ...

Tx power asymmetry can not be "rectified" by antenna gain (because it works for both Tx and Rx), this kind of asymmetry can only be "rectified" by asymmetry of Rx sensitivity ... which means that APs will need Rx higher sensitivity than stations. And the difference in Tx power between AP and station is only 6dB. This is way less than difference in Tx power between base station and terminal in mobile networks, in LTE difference is usually somewhere around 20dB (terminals are limited to 23dBm and base stations usually operate at around 40dBm to 46dBm, at least on low and medium frequency bands, i.e. lower than 2.5GHz).

Alas, higher Rx sensitivity means that prices of AP chipsets will go up considerably ... perhaps by around 6dB as well.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:16 pm

The cAP AC XL that was released in 2022 is Wifi ACv1 with no upgrade path.

So 2014 radio standard... 8 years later.

The audience wifi wave2 driver would bring it to ACv2. A 2016 standard. Which they are just getting into caps-man in 2023... 7 years late.

Outside of the 60Ghz PtP line... It's pretty hard to take Mikrotik WiFi seriously anymore.
Credit where it's due.

Out of nowhere... The AC units did get an upgrade path to ACv2 at the end of 2023. No longer requiring legacy customers to trash the units to move on.

I rescind my earlier statement about "2014 wireless in 2023."

We now have 2016 wireless in 2024!
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:59 pm

Not that long. AX took longer, since we had to move from our own drivers to chipset manufacturer drivers. From now on with wifi.npk package, it will be much easier.
Can you give us a hint here, we've been waiting for over 3 years at this point for 6ghz capable wifi gear from Mikrotik. Skip 6e at this point, missed the boat on that, lets get 7 so we can start buying your WiFi gear again. Ready to purchase man!

By any chance do you have a router with an M.2 slot inside that I can put a WiFi 7 Intel BE200 card in and update the wifi.npk on yet until you start packaging one with it built in?
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:36 pm

I seriously doubt that Mikrotik will come out with a "WiFi 7" product in less than 2 or 3 years from now.
It also looks like Mikrotik totally missed the "Wi-Fi 6e" market.

Some ( non-Mikrotik ) WiFi 7 , Wi-Fi 7 products are shipping right now.

IMO , Mikrotik has great reliable wireless products for Wi-Fi 5 products but hardly anything for Wi-Fi 6. I've been waiting for years for Mikrotik to make a product that operates in the 6 GHz to low 7-GHz bands.
Mikrotik never been good with wi-fi/wireless.
If you want something good and reliable you get Ubiquiti U6-LR for example as me
Example: Friend of mine got hAP ax³ and he's not happy with it at least with Wi-Fi range and speeds.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:54 pm

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I was also not satisfied with Wi-Fi on cAP ac and hAP ac2, however, since the migration to wifi-qcom-ac drivers, the throughput and stability of the network have improved many times (even with 25-30 clients on one interface).

I have hAP ax2 at home for testing and I am getting this over Wi-Fi (one room): (it was download from Steam over WISPs 60 GHz connection on village).

The coverage is slightly better than with the Turris Omnia.
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:31 pm

I seriously doubt that Mikrotik will come out with a "WiFi 7" product in less than 2 or 3 years from now.
It also looks like Mikrotik totally missed the "Wi-Fi 6e" market.

Some ( non-Mikrotik ) WiFi 7 , Wi-Fi 7 products are shipping right now.

IMO , Mikrotik has great reliable wireless products for Wi-Fi 5 products but hardly anything for Wi-Fi 6. I've been waiting for years for Mikrotik to make a product that operates in the 6 GHz to low 7-GHz bands.
Mikrotik never been good with wi-fi/wireless.
If you want something good and reliable you get Ubiquiti U6-LR for example as me
Example: Friend of mine got hAP ax³ and he's not happy with it at least with Wi-Fi range and speeds.
I bought hAP ax3 for my parents and for the past 10 months, no issues(there was one Wifi interface freezing issue at the beginning, which Mikrotik fixed). I also installed PiHole on it which my parents seem happy about(blocking ads).
The range is also quite good(~90-100m) but I tested it in a very low interference environment.
 
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Re: Wi‑Fi 7 / 802.11be

Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:37 pm

I was also not satisfied with Wi-Fi on cAP ac and hAP ac2, however, since the migration to wifi-qcom-ac drivers, the throughput and stability of the network have improved many times (even with 25-30 clients on one interface).
👉👉👉 since the migration to wifi-qcom-ac drivers, the throughput and stability of the network have improved many times 👈👈👈

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