Recent content by ikonomov

I've been using my Amplifi Alien for nearly a year now and so far it's been rock solid. I haven't ran any speed tests besides the initial ones reported here, but I haven't had any problems with speed, range or disconnects. I have enabled the 5GHz 4x4 AC band and I've connected my main computer...

I just did another test specifically on the 5GHz AX 8x8 band, transferring a file back and forth between two computers connected to the router via two AX200 adapters. This time I disabled the AC 4x4 band on the router just to see if that will have any effect, even if no other device was...

NAS units with link aggregation on 2x 10Gbit Ethernet ports are becoming pretty standard even if PCIe storage is needed at that point to really take advantage of that speed. Now that Wi-Fi is near the speed of 1Gbit I think it wouldn't hurt offering routers on a 10Gbit platform, and many people...

I did some further testing after I enabled the AC band with the extra 4x4 streams, which is disabled by default. I also gave the Wi-Fi 6 5Ghz band a different SSID name so I can easily switch between the 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 and 5GHz Wi-Fi 5 band. Both operate at 80Mhz channel bandwidth. There are no...

I agree. My old Linksys E4200 needed an upgrade, but I should have really gone for Netgear R7800, currently for $170 on Amazon. There is no real reason to get an AX router at the moment if I can get about the same speed with AC, especially if 6GHz is forthcoming. Had I gone that route I...

Some additional info. The 5GHz 4x4 Wi-Fi 5 radio chip is disabled by default. Enabling it with the same SSID name will create an additional band with 4x4 AC streams, but the router will not be able to direct for example AC clients to the new 5GHz AC band. AC clients will also not be able to...

I just found this post. On the block diagram (page 8) in the .pdf link I posted in my previous post for the IPQ8078 chipset you can see that it only offers 4x4+4x4 or 4x4+8x8 depending on how it's configured, not 4x4+4x4+8x8. What's interesting is that if you look at the diagram of the PCB of...

Another Alien router user here. I just received mine today. I have been checking the AmpliFi website for about three weeks now and although it is currently Out of Stock, last week while checking it did show up In Stock and I was able to order it. The link above goes straight to the order...