A 160Mhz router to go with my Intel AC 9260?

[YoureAWizardMerlin]

Hi. I'm currently using an Asus RT-AC68U but it's giving me all kinds of troubles. It's ancient by now and I can barely get 10MB/s local network speeds over it and the Wifi is constantly dropping out so I'd say it's really on the way out as the performance has dropped dramatically in the last 6 months.

I'd like to replace this Router with something that can run Merlin-wrt and that supports 160Mhz with a 1730mbps wireless speed which is what my Intel AC 9260 supports. I don't expect the full 1730mbps speeds but my Dell XPS does have a fast nvme SSD and a Kaby lake i5-7300hq so I'd expect at least gigabit speeds. The higher the better though.

The only other requirement is that it supports DDNS A+ via the router with Namecheap. I really don't want to mess with that.

Could someone please suggest something that is within my requirements. Thanks

 

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NETGEAR R7800 supports both 80+80 and 160MHz. It also supports DFS, which is needed when you are eating up so many channels.

 

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I'd like to replace this Router with something that can run Merlin-wrt and that supports 160Mhz with a 1730mbps wireless speed which is what my Intel AC 9260 supports. I don't expect the full 1730mbps speeds but my Dell XPS does have a fast nvme SSD and a Kaby lake i5-7300hq so I'd expect at least gigabit speeds. The higher the better though.

Don't worry so much - the 9260 is a 2-stream card, and for most, if not all case - you'll see decent bandwidth.

160MHz and MU - the card supports those features, but in most cases, you won't be able to use them - marketing...

 

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Don't worry so much - the 9260 is a 2-stream card, and for most, if not all case - you'll see decent bandwidth.

160MHz and MU - the card supports those features, but in most cases, you won't be able to use them - marketing...

Not quite, a lot of phones all the way back to even my thrusty old battery warn samsung galaxy s4 has single channel AC with MU-MIMO support. A lot of mobile devices do come with this and if you have more than 1 device with such an adapter (like perhaps buying 2 of those intel adapters) then you can make use of it.

So dont count it out just yet, perhaps in a year or 2 or even if you have visitors. Usual upgrade cycles for consumer networking stuff is 5-10 years or never until it cant keep up or breaks.

 

[Gnufsh]

Not quite, a lot of phones all the way back to even my thrusty old battery warn samsung galaxy s4 has single channel AC with MU-MIMO support. A lot of mobile devices do come with this and if you have more than 1 device with such an adapter (like perhaps buying 2 of those intel adapters) then you can make use of it.

So dont count it out just yet, perhaps in a year or 2 or even if you have visitors. Usual upgrade cycles for consumer networking stuff is 5-10 years or never until it cant keep up or breaks.

According to this article, the S6 was one of the first phones to support MU-MIMO:
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/33100-why-you-don-t-need-mu-mimo

According to this the S4 has a BCM4335 chip for WiFi:
https://wifinigel.blogspot.com/2013/05/samsung-s4-wifi-capabilities.html

Here is Broadcom's page for the BCM4335, which does not list Wave 2 or MU-MIMO support:
https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/wireless-lan-infrastructure/bcm4335

 

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According to this article, the S6 was one of the first phones to support MU-MIMO:
https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/33100-why-you-don-t-need-mu-mimo

According to this the S4 has a BCM4335 chip for WiFi:
https://wifinigel.blogspot.com/2013/05/samsung-s4-wifi-capabilities.html

Here is Broadcom's page for the BCM4335, which does not list Wave 2 or MU-MIMO support:
https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/wireless-lan-infrastructure/bcm4335

Thanks for clarifying, Still though more and more MU-MIMO devices are coming out.

 

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Thanks for clarifying, Still though more and more MU-MIMO devices are coming out.

It's a given that many smartphones will get MU as part of the product development cycle, and more chipsets integrate MU.

There's some good points I mentioned over in a couple of other threads - just because MU is present, doesn't mean it'll be used, conditions need to be right for the AP to even decide to start using MU packets...

 

[YoureAWizardMerlin]

NETGEAR R7800 supports both 80+80 and 160MHz. It also supports DFS, which is needed when you are eating up so many channels.

This doesn't support Merlin-wrt or DDNS with Namecheap it seems.

Also it doesn't seem to support 160Mhz, just 80+80Mhz:

Regarding your question, the R7800 only supports 80+80 operation mode since the channel selection for the router only consists with channels 36-48 and 149-161.

NETGEAR Support Expert = Clarisse (Expert ID: 46194)

I was thinking if I am going to go for Netgear, which I am not even sure that I will. That I would go for this model: https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R8500.aspx

Because:

1. It supports 2 port aggregation which I can use to connect my HP ProLiant Gen 8 NAS to which has a dual ethernet setup.

2. It has 6 ports which allows me to cover my: HP server, HP iLO, 1 Laptop, 1 PC and have 1 left over for a Switch should I need more.

It doesn't support 160Mhz either, just 80+80Mhz but at this point I don't really know what to pick.

 

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The R7800 supports 160MHz contiguous and 80+80 and DFS. I have verified 160 MHz contiguous.

The R8500 supports neither.

 

[YoureAWizardMerlin]

Alright thanks for letting me know.