OpenWrt One - celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt

[Daniel Golle]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 06:49:04PM +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> wt., 9 sty 2024 o 18:02 Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com> napisał(a):
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 17:53, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 9.01.2024 13:29, John Crispin wrote:
> > > > On 09.01.24 12:56, Robert Marko wrote:
> > > >> ---SNIP---
> > > >>
> > > >>> Why not 6GHz?
> > > >> 6GHz requires an external card, and I doubt you can fit that in the
> > > >> target price.
> > > >>
> > > >> Regards,
> > > >> Robert
> > > >
> > > > correct. as mentioned in the email, we wanted to start out small. also upstream mac80211 is still missing a bunch of 11be related features.
> > >
> > > 6 GHz doesn't imply 802.11be, does it? I'm really not sure.
> > >
> > > Does MediaTek have any 802.11ax solutions that cover both: 5 GHz and
> > > 6 GHz? Maybe it'd be worth checking if that's an option and then use
> > > voting to see if people care?
> >
> > You can use 6GHz as part of 802.11ax as well, but you need an external card or
> > you need to sacrifice the built-in 5GHz for 6GHz and that isn't really
> > a good idea
> > in my opinion.
> >
> Even will be 150$ it is still good price for router with 2.4/5/6GHz
> (MTK base ACER predator W6 is about 200$).
> Or at least add extra m2 AE Key slot - then we can put there mt7916
> card, as possible extension (eg.
> https://asiarf.com/product/wi-fi-6e-m-2-ae-key-module-mt7916-aw7916-aed/).
> What will be price in case of this extra m2 AE Key slot?

You can use M.2 key adapters for that
https://www.delock.com/produkt/63343/merkmale.html

An additional slot is *not* an option as we got only a single PCIe lane.

Hopefully there are also going to be single-band (6 GHz only) 4T4R or
even 4T5R modules based on MT7916E available at some point...