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Bruceg

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Hi, have vox 200/100 fibre running thru tplink touch p5 router connected to a mesh of 5 airties 4920 units. Busy upgrading fibre to 500/250 with vox. Would I need to upgrade any part of my system to handle the 500/250 fibre line?
 
Bruceg said:
Hi, have vox 200/100 fibre running thru tplink touch p5 router connected to a mesh of 5 airties 4920 units. Busy upgrading fibre to 500/250 with vox. Would I need to upgrade any part of my system to handle the 500/250 fibre line?
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500MB/250MB Open Serve over Wifi- Do I Need A Mesh Solution?

Greetings, I recently upgraded from my Fibre line to 500MB download & 250MB Upload. When using a Lan Cable, I seem to be getting just over 500MB download and around 24MB upload consistently. Here is my problem: All our devices use Wifi. About 5 Devices uses 2.4GHZ, and 2 Devices 5GHZ. The...
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Bruceg said:
Hi, have vox 200/100 fibre running thru tplink touch p5 router connected to a mesh of 5 airties 4920 units. Busy upgrading fibre to 500/250 with vox. Would I need to upgrade any part of my system to handle the 500/250 fibre line?
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In order to get 500Mbps down on a wifi connection you're going to have to be on 5Ghz and set your channel width to at least 80Mhz. But 80Mhz doesn't work with all devices, and if you have any interference from neighbouring 5Ghz networks it's going to overlap with a 80Mhz channel width. Personally I prefer to sacrifice a bit of speed for stability, so I set my 5Ghz networks to 40Mhz. Unfortunately this means I can only get about 250Mbps down on my 500/250 line from Openserve. My laptop is hardwired to the network though and I get my full 500Mbps all the time on that.
 
What wifi speeds do you currently get? I'm not sure (stand to be corrected) that the 4920s can do 500Mbps
 
Wouldn't something like the huawei AX3 Wifi6 routers do the job, I see they are R1300 on Takealot?
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Cool, then you’d get the full benefit as long as you don’t add legacy devices.
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But won't the legacy devices still run at the max bandwidth their WiFi is capable of, so win all round?
 
airborne said:
But won't the legacy devices still run at the max bandwidth their WiFi is capable of, so win all round?
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No. Wi-Fi 5 is ac, Wi-Fi 6 is ax.
Depending on the device you may to have turn off Wi-Fi 6 features as they don’t mix well.
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Cool, then you’d get the full benefit as long as you don’t add legacy devices.
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Legacy services work fine on my network, granted I only have 4 WiFi 6 devices out of 30 but haven't noticed any degradation
 
Mzezman said:
Legacy services work fine on my network, granted I only have 4 WiFi 6 devices out of 30 but haven't noticed any degradation
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That's been my experience as well, I'm not sure what he's referring to, legacy devices just run at their slower spec and the newer spec device's run at full speed.
 
Mzezman said:
Legacy services work fine on my network, granted I only have 4 WiFi 6 devices out of 30 but haven't noticed any degradation
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Not degradation, it will work fine no doubt. If you want the full benefits of Wi-Fi 6 then you’d need compatible devices.
As you mentioned the 4920 is capable of more, OP tested internet speed not network.

airborne said:
That's been my experience as well, I'm not sure what he's referring to, legacy devices just run at their slower spec and the newer spec device's run at full speed.
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OFDMA & MU-MIMO
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Not degradation, it will work fine no doubt. If you want the full benefits of Wi-Fi 6 then you’d need compatible devices.
As you mentioned the 4920 is capable of more, OP tested internet speed not network.


OFDMA & MU-MIMO
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