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by walrus01 42 days ago
how many spatial streams are you using (2x2, 3x3, etc) and are you using an 80 or 160 MHz channel?

If you have a set of full capability 802.11be clients you'll see the best performance with a 3x3 AP and 160 MHz channels.

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160hz channel & 2 spatial streams.

It's unfortunately consumer grade tp-links so while they have actually been pretty good...you don't get a lot of knobs to tweak.

Still need to try MLO at some stage and they're currently acting as a bridge so (i.e. wifi backhaul) so think it might get better once I've laid fiber backhaul between them

Would recommend one of the ubiquiti 3x3 802.11be APs for better performance. The U7 Pro or similar. The unifi controller software is a monolithic package you can install on a bare bones debian system. Wifi backhaul definitely also a problem as using any kind of wifi-to-wifi extender stuff will cut your throughput a lot, keep in mind that all 802.11.whatever is a half duplex medium.
>3x3

The ones I have seem to be 2x2...with backhaul on wifi the 1.3 I'm seeing is probably just 1 then.

Aware of ubiquiti popularity in homelab circles. It's not for me tbh.

I've been through a couple of iterations of wifi gear - including a mainland china no-english Xiaomi...that was an adventure.

At this stage I don't think I'm tearing it out and buying new. "slow" gigabit internet on mobile device is an annoyance to my perfectionist side but I'll survive. And with a bit of luck adding fiber backhaul gets me above internet speed.