Recent content by zerodegrekelvin

Well, let me remind you WPS was introduced by WFA, and I don't need to tell you why WFA did it, but history has shown how much a joke WPS is with respect to security, and yet most of shipping devices still have WPS on it. WFA did not address WPS, all the vendors did in one way or another to...

Honestly, WFA does not create any standards, they just rebrand/reshuffle specs from IEEE into some kind of certifications and have the members to pay them to ensure they comply with the so called certifications. As a consumer, do I really care about those certifications, certainly not, what I...

Since you have a MacBook Pro, you can do a wireless trace to see what is happening over the air, since you said "I'm no newbie...". I can look at the trace.

Broadcom for the low-end (low-end is a figure of speech as those AP are enterprise with the enterpri$e price). QCA for the high-end.

I may oversimplify the sw dev process, but what is strange is some released driver version for the same chipset 4360 in D-link has the means to get proper metrics that are being used in your Smart Connect thing. I used to worked for HP/Aruba in the Access Point team so I know what exactly is...

Smart Connect is not supported because the used Broadcom driver for the 4360 used on the 68U does not expose the channel metrics required, like txtime/rxtime...so the user space can estimate the airtime usage of the channel, which is critical as parameter behind the whole Smart Connect thing...

8-) So I have to do the old wardriving to collect the traces... do you have a "personal" collection of mesh traces you can share? From all the reviews I only see throughput numbers, rarely anybody talk about the "secret sauce" if ever there are such, we all know 99% of current mesh...

Eero dev commit are shown in batman-adv repo, and there is a dev on reddit actively chatting about inner working of their mesh but never mentioned they use batman-adv. I just want to see some traces from current vendors since SNB is doing lots of tests on mesh, I figure SNB surely has traces to...

Hi Jim, Any chance you can post some wireless trace between the nodes? I just want to see whether or not ASUS is doing WDS on the backhaul link? And if they are using batman-adv or similar mesh protocols? I think the Eero is using batman-adv.

I believe Asus Lyra is building on top of this mesh platform from QCA. Also it looks like this platform is using the Wi-Fi Alliance EasyMesh spec. One can download the Lyra GPL and inspects the source to see the link.

I tried Intel7260 and it cannot sniff VHT frame in linux, you can see HT40 frames fine but no VHT. I use MacbookPro and it is working fine to sniff VTH80. For intel7260, somebody complained to Intel about not able to capture VHT but no intelligent reply from Intel, they said to seek help in...

I don't know why you said MU-MIMO is not enable? It is enabled, you can see MU-MIMO presence in the beacon VHT advertised by the Quantenna radio. My engineering contact at Quantenna told me they give to ASUS the MU-MIMO code for the AC87. I will test Quantenna MU-MIMO as I have QCA MU-MIMO...

I just want to add that the PCE-AC68 3x3 card is using the same Broadcom chipset as the one used for the RT-AC87U. The massive heatsink is typically a sign Broadcom chip is underneath. QCA 3x3 chip runs much cooler. The heat from the BRCM chip does not come from PowerAmplier, but from the...

I notice this version has MU-MIMO enabled from the beacon VTH Capabilities!! Finally.

I have QCA wave2 with MU-MIMO PCIe card for over-the-air test so I can use QCA card as client to peer with ASUS, I have Agilent and Veriwave to capture/inject the RF of MU-MIMO. Still waiting for Broadcom Wave2 chipset with MU-MIMO, so in the meantime there is Quantenna with supposedly MU-MIMO...