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by Havoc 41 days ago
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

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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.