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by throwoutway 1334 days ago
Thanks for this information! Do mesh wifi routers do FDMA now? I think my mesh router uses multiple bands
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Not as far as I'm aware. I don't know much about Wifi mesh, but I'm guessing that it has two channels - one for being "master" and one for "slave".

I.e. the master channel is used to serve wifi to the nearby devices, and to the next wifi routers in a chain, whereas the slave channel is used to get wifi from any upstream routers.

We wouldn't describe that approach as FDMA - more that it has a separate channel for backhaul.