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Also be interesting to know what the output power is @5745-5805Do these routers support channel 149+ on 5GHz?
Also be interesting to know what the output power is @5745-5805
I was looking at a travel router a couple months ago for an upcoming trip to the USA. Which of these would be best as a travel router? Around 5 devices connected plus would like to have VPN option; either to back home or just to PIA.
What one commad says and what the router does in another country isn't the same.These are the specs for the MediaTek 830 chipset used in the GL-MT6000.
Output Power 11b: 23dbm+/- 1.5dbm @ 11Mbps
11g: 21dbm+/- 1.5dbm @ 54Mbps
11g/n: 21dBm +/- 1.5dbm @MCS7,HE20,16.5dBm@MCS7,HE4011a: 20dBm +/- 1.5dbm @ 54Mbps
11a/n: 20dBm+/- 1.5dbm @MCS7,HE20,16.5dBm@MCS7,HE4011ac HE20: 20+/-1.5dBm@MCS8
11ac HE40: 17+/-1.5dBm@MCS9
11ac HE80: 14.5+/-1.5dBm@MCS911ax HE20: 20+/-1.5dBm@MCS911ax HE40: 17+/-1.5dBm@MCS911ax HE80: 13.5+/-1.5dBm@MCS1111ax HE160: 13.5+/-1.5dBm@MCS11
Receiver Sensitivity 11b: -99dBm@11Mbps
11g: -95dBm@54Mbps
11g/n: -90dBm@HT20,MCS7, -86dBm@HT40,MCS7
11a: -90Bm@54Mbps
11a/n: -85dBm@HT20,MCS7, -81dBm@HT40,MCS711ac: -90dBm+/-2dBm @VHT20 MCS8
11ac: -85dBm+/-2dBm @VHT40 MCS9
11ac: -68dBm+/-2dBm @VHT80 MCS911ax: -61dBm+/-2dBm @HE20 MCS11
11ax: -58dBm+/-2dBm @HE40 MCS11
11ax: -55dBm+/-2dBm @HE80 MCS11
iw reg get
country GB: DFS-ETSI
(2400 - 2483 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A)
(5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW
(5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), NO-OUTDOOR, DFS, AUTO-BW
(5470 - 5730 @ 160), (N/A, 26), (0 ms), DFS
(5725 - 5850 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR
(5925 - 6425 @ 160), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR
(57000 - 71000 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A)
iwinfo
wlan1 ESSID: "Mode"
Access Point: C0:4A
Mode: Client Channel: 100 (5.500 GHz)
Center Channel 1: 102 2: unknown
Tx-Power: 19 dBm Link Quality: 70/70
Signal: -39 dBm Noise: -90 dBm
Bit Rate: 300.0 MBit/s
Encryption: unknown
Type: nl80211 HW Mode(s): 802.11an
Hardware: 168C:0033 168C:A120 [Atheros AR9580]
TX power offset: none
Frequency offset: none
Supports VAPs: yes PHY name: phy1
iwinfo
wlan1 ESSID: "Mode"
Access Point: C0:4A
Mode: Client Channel: 149 (5.745 GHz)
Center Channel 1: 151 2: unknown
Tx-Power: 14 dBm Link Quality: 44/70
Signal: -66 dBm Noise: -95 dBm
Bit Rate: 6.0 MBit/s
Encryption: unknown
Type: nl80211 HW Mode(s): 802.11an
Hardware: 168C:0033 168C:A120 [Atheros AR9580]
TX power offset: none
Frequency offset: none
Supports VAPs: yes PHY name: phy1
I have been reading around looking at getting the GL-MT6000 for in the short term replacing an elderly Asus RT-AC68U as a dumbap for my network (I currently route everything through a RPi4 with OpenWRT).
It seems to have some teething troubles with WiFi and it's 2.5gb ports which have caused regressions on it firmware (the latest version was pulled and a promised new release due a week or so ago has not yet materialised).
Hopefully they can solve it.
The more I look into it people are just annoyed that their iPhone can't get more than 150 Mbps on 2.4 Ghz... like why does your phone need 150 Mbps? Every other device performs as expected such as Intel Wifi cards.
Sure; https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/updates...g-back-v4-5-7-and-releasing-v4-5-8-soon/40249 - official announcement from their forums. Rolling back to using OpenWRT 21.02.Could you link to these regressions on the firmware please? And the CURRENT issues with the WiFi.
Simply a toy to play with, and it's cost isn't that much more than a comparable AP, also I like the specification. Also, although it performs well I feel the Pi is a bit of a Heath Robinson solution, as I mentioned in my post it would only temporarily be used as a dumb access point then move to be being the main router.The person who posted above wanted the GL-MT6000 as a dumb access point. What’s wrong with just buying an access point?
It seems some have taken great umbrage at what was promised and the announcement that the would be developing the official firmware on an older version of OpenWRT. But you are right the noise to signal ratio of some of the posts do seem a bit for the sake of having something to moan about.The more I look into it people are just annoyed that their iPhone can't get more than 100 Mbps on 2.4 Ghz... like why does your phone need 100 Mbps to start with? Every other device performs as expected such as Intel Wifi cards. It does appear like the latest vanilla OpenWRT snapshots have even fixed that problem. 150 Mbps at 20 Mhz and 300 Mbps at 40 Mhz. Seems good. If you get the GL-MT6000 I would definitely go to vanilla OpenWRT.
Other problems people post... I swear they are the type of people to take a sledgehammer to the router and then post stuff like "guys my router doesn't work anymore???????!!!!!!!!???????". The amount of stuff I've read is ridiculous.
One of the myseries of the world unfortunately.Why are the iPhones on 2.4GHz anyway?
Sure; https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/updates...g-back-v4-5-7-and-releasing-v4-5-8-soon/40249 - official announcement from their forums. Rolling back to using OpenWRT 21.02.
So, as I understand it, they issued an IMPROVEMENT update to a working system, and it wasn’t an improvement, so they pulled it and now they’re fixing it? But as my “customers” (they’re not really customers because I donated the demo unit to them for free) are quite happily still using it I guess it worked all along. Just not perfectly for some niche users.
It seems some have taken great umbrage at what was promised and the announcement that the would be developing the official firmware on an older version of OpenWRT. But you are right the noise to signal ratio of some of the posts do seem a bit for the sake of having something to moan about.
EDIT - https://forum.openwrt.org/t/gl-inet-flint-2-gl-mt6000-discussions/173524/1070?page=12 - Main discussion on OpenWRT forum linked to the last page. Quite informative.