I got a new Unifi u7 PRO and turned on 6ghz radio at High transmit. I currently have my main desktop that supports WIFI 6E so it can support 6GHZ. I am 40 feet away from the AP and have a borderline too low RSSI to use it.
This is a PSA that you may need more AP’s that just transmit 6GHZ if you want a large home to have good coverage. If money was no object I would use 2 U6 APS for 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ and 3 U7 Pro’s running only 6GHZ.
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6ghz had FAR less penetration through walls than 5ghz. I was surprised how much a single wall attentuated the signal. I just want people to be aware a 6ghz signal had much less penetrating power than i expected. I would hate to see what happens if you tried using the 60GHz link through some trees.
What were you expecting exactly? At the end of the day this is still a wireless connection, can’t beat a good old fashioned Ethernet cable, or a DAC, fiber, etc.
I agree but Network performance leans more into concurrent usage when talking about high performance numbers.
Access points like the E7 or u7 have some potential radio capability that aren’t likely to be exploited by existing hardware in desktop computers or portable devices with older radios.
For raw throughput on a single point to point transfer within the network the only way to accurately gage performance is to transfer a huge file or series of files. Each device would have to have identical settings and identical wireless radios.
Normal network access isn’t likely to see any performance increases.
This sounds like it’s working as advertised, honestly. If you have an open floor plan or a large living room with the AP, it would probably work better.
I have an open floor plan at home, so I’m considering a U7 pro to replace my Engenius EWS-377. I might use the EWS to cover dead zones in the yard.
@jayman - Do you have any laptops with 6GHz? That would enable a much better survey of the signal loss with respect to distance and barriers.
I understand people are obsessed with speed, and you get that when very close without obstructions to the AP. Guess when you spend most of your time in the living room you should not put your only AP in the hall. But for most people the other perk of Wifi 7 should be more important. Bonding the connections over 2.4, 5 and 6Ghz together not just for speed but for relaiability. So people who are used to configure every frequency as a seperate SSID to manually seperate devices give up on this in my opinion important Wifi 7 feature.
I can confirm that. I had my U7 Pro mounted on the wall (see the mark on the top of the image). My bedroom had 1-5 Mbits/s. It could be a metal beam there.
3D printed a new mount, so I can orient differently: 600 Mbits/s or more.
(Also having the 2.5 GbE cable almost doubled the speed.)
Do I notice a significant improvement in a congested city? Not really.
That’s just physics, with few exceptions ultra high frequencies are absorbed by most solid objects in increasing amounts as you go further up the frequency range. The thickness of the material it must pass through increases its resistance, I don’t know if there’s an mathematical formula for this but i suspect one exists.
I remember visiting a SAC base and going inside a nuclear bunker, there was one spot in the entire facility where you could get signals from outside, everywhere else was completely devoid of outside RF.
