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[Janusz Dziedzic]

wt., 9 sty 2024 o 18:59 Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> napisał(a):
>
> 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...

Seems bpi-r4 will use two miniPCIe slots for that:
https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_BPI-R4#4.29_Wi-Fi7_NIC

If we don't have two PCIe then probably no option for 6ghz