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    Intel AC 7260 and drivers

    No. There is a new (optional, disabled by default) "throughput booster" option, but the release notes make no mention of it, much less offer an explanation for what it is. In fact, the release notes still speak of support for 6200, 6230, and 6250 cards in the legacy branch even though the legacy...
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    Intel AC 7260 and drivers

    I personally prefer driver-only, as the features in Proset are not things that I ever need or want. And frankly, I don't think a driver should take over the OS's management UI. Especially when that driver UI comes from Intel, which... let's say I've had way too many bad experiences with Intel's...
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    New Intel 7260 drivers, 17.1.0.19

    17.1.0.19 has been posted on Intel's website. The driver package also contains updated drivers in the two 15.x branches for legacy cards, but Intel inexplicably stripped out support for the 6200, 6230, 6250, and a number of other cards, while retaining support for other 6xxx cards like the 6205...
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    Use the same or different SSID name for both 2.4/5Ghz bands?

    Are you sure it's entirely up to the client? The driver does have some say in it, since the Intel driver offers a band preference option in the driver parameters that does have an effect. And I've found that there is quite a bit of variance in the behavior depending on the chipset (and I always...
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    Use the same or different SSID name for both 2.4/5Ghz bands?

    That's because most clients just blindly pick the first thing they see, so lower beacon = see it sooner. ;)
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    New Intel 7260 drivers, 17.1.0.19

    The first post of this thread stated that they were downloaded from station-drivers.com, and if you had gone there, you would have noticed a link to it in the news feed on the front page.
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    New Intel 7260 drivers, 17.1.0.19

    Nominal link speed was 867Mbps in all cases. It's highly unlikely that it's a QAM256 thing, since the performance discrepancy from that should be far higher. Edit: Oh, you meant the non-standard Broadcom-only QAM256 for 11n on 2.4GHz? But that wouldn't explain the difference in uplink on 11ac...
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    New Intel 7260 drivers, 17.1.0.19

    These are the signed, WHQL drivers that were posted to station-drivers.com. They have not yet appeared on Intel's website. (Update: It's now on Intel's website; see post #10.) A diff of the INFs for these new 17.1.x vs. the old 17.0.x drivers reveals a new toggle option in the advanced driver...
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    Use the same or different SSID name for both 2.4/5Ghz bands?

    Yea, what everyone said: It depends on the device. Which generally means, keep them separate. :P I live in an urban setting. Lots of neighbors. Lots of congestion. 2.4GHz is so noisy that I get 1/8 the throughput on it that I get on 5GHz. Should be a no-brainer, right? Whether it's the Nexus...
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    Why do laptops still come with crappy 1x1 N cards?

    Meh, I don't even bother to look at what WiFi cards things have. An Atheros AR9462-based card with 2x2 dual-band 11n and Bluetooth 4.0 can be found for $5 or less on eBay, shipped (search for AR5B22). I've even managed to snag one for as low as $2.65 shipped (though that was also a lucky find)...
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    Why do laptops still come with crappy 1x1 N cards?

    Microsoft makes a point of pushing dual-band (and high-resolution) when they are able to. For example, the Acer Aspire V5s that you get at most places have crap 1366x768 screens and 1x1 SB WiFi, but the variants that they carry exclusively at the Microsoft store are 2x2 dual-band 11n with 1080p...
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    802.1q on wan possible?

    I had seen that writeup, which I don't really like because it's geared towards a very specific setup with pfSense and a separate managed switch (egads!) for VLAN tagging. Which really isn't necessary, since you can use vconfig to set up the tagging and the CoS marking. Google actually has...
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    Many Devices Ignoring 40 MHz Coexistence - Wi-Fi Certified

    So far, I've been really lucky that nobody's stepped on my toes (yet). Before Fiber, there were only three 5GHz networks that I can see from my home: mine at 44-48, another at 36-40, and another at 149-153. The six new Fiber nets are one at 36-40, three at 149-153, and two at 157-161. 5GHz is...
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    802.1q on wan possible?

    For Google Fiber, WAN traffic needs to be VLAN-tagged with a VID of 2 and outbound traffic needs to also be marked with a CoS (vlan-qos) of 2. I don't actually have an Asus 11ac router, but I've been seriously thinking about getting one (I'm currently running DD-WRT on an old D-Link 825--it...
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    Many Devices Ignoring 40 MHz Coexistence - Wi-Fi Certified

    Seeing as how full speed is gigabit, no, you won't get full speeds even with 11ac with a 80Mhz channel width on 5GHz. (Their device is 3x3 dual-band 11n, so it has a nominal speed of 450 per band.) The problem isn't with 40MHz on 2.4GHz. It's 40MHz on 2.4GHz when 2.4GHz is blanketed by a...
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