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    [Advise] 2022 (new?) wifi6e m.2 laptop network cards? Recommendations, Please

    There are 4x4 AX client cards on like Ali Express and other places only problem is they are larger than standard laptop M.2 cards but may be fine for desktops, however one I saw was Mediatek based and I don’t know if it has Windows drivers. There some Compex branded 4x4 and 2x2 Qualcomm cards...
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    [Advise] 2022 (new?) wifi6e m.2 laptop network cards? Recommendations, Please

    Yup they got bought out. Killer never made cards they merely rebranded standard Qualcomm and Intel cards. Even the drivers are stock QCA/Intel. Only difference is the Killer variants allow you to install their horrible QoS software, which is Killer’s real product, which is snake oil for the most...
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    News "Wi-Fi 7 Stomps on the Gas"

    I didn’t mean they shouldn’t normalize performance between the two variants of course that’s unfair to customers. My point was, instead of dual sourcing with an inferior Intel part (mostly to put pressure on QCA), they should have just used the superior QCA modem for all phones, to it’s full...
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    Netgear R7900 Convert to R8000 Full Instructions

    At one time you could actually change board ID in the original firmware. That’s how we tested XR500 firmware on the R7800 a while back during a beta. Granted even telnet is now removed in NG firmwares.
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    News "Wi-Fi 7 Stomps on the Gas"

    I suppose marketing can and do claim with MU-MIMO they can serve multiple clients in parallel with extra streams on the AP side boosting performance. Granted in testing it’s a mixed bag with only Qualcomm chipsets doing it well. Broadcom chipsets had issues with it back in the WiFi 5 days, even...
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    [Advise] 2022 (new?) wifi6e m.2 laptop network cards? Recommendations, Please

    Simultaneously Multiband, if that’s what you want then it’s the Intel’s AX411 aka Killer AXE1690. The Killer variant is now seen in some laptops like Razer’s latest 15” models. If you want absolute garuntees of getting proper cards then some of the warehouse sellers like Provantage when they...
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    Antivirus Norton360/Avira gathering CryptoCoins in Background

    He was on the run for murder at one point, believe it or not. I think he died in jail? As for LifeLock (Pre Norton acquisition) anyone remember the arrogant CEO who advertised his SSN on billboards and trucks as a show of his confidence… Got his identity stolen over a dozen times lol...
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    News "Wi-Fi 7 Stomps on the Gas"

    There were quite a few 4x4 AC routers that had HT160 support, my R7800 limited by its gig port would do ~960 Mbps to a 9260ac. Same card on an RAX80 and RAX120 was 1000+ Mbps at a 1733 Mbps link… (tested to an SSD on the RAX80 as it’s gigabit limited, but much faster storage performance vs...
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    News "Wi-Fi 7 Stomps on the Gas"

    Depends in day to day real world use I’ve noticed little to no difference going from an R7800 to an RAX80/RAX120 and now an RAXE500. Same with going from a 9260ac to an AX200/210 aside from benchmarks. On 5Ghz for example the jump from AC to AX in real world for me hasn’t been all that great vs...
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    Good PC network card

    There should be no difference in performance/stability between a 200/210. I had a bunch of 200s and later 210s in the same 1/2 dozen laptops. Aside from 6Ghz, saw no differences in benchmark testing or stability, testing with various routers. Any differences you saw I’m inclined to attribute to...
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    Router specs advice: device priority

    Bandwidth management could still be useful especially for very asymmetrical connections like Comcast’s Gig profile which these days is actually like 1.4 Gbps / 35 Mbps.
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    Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 revealed

    A bit different from dual station, Double connect was carried over from before acquisition of Killer by Intel. Essentially link agg with their Killer QoS software suite handling the load balancing between WiFi and Ethernet, pretty much what you alluded to above . With simultaneous dual band on...
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    Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 revealed

    Yeah what Killer brand’s as DoubleShot, that’s closest to what you were looking for, originally it was combining one WiFi band and Ethernet like link aggregation and now it can do it across two WiFi bands meaning still not exactly one big pipe but rather prioritizing data across one band or the...
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    Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 revealed

    No Dual station is not a fat pipe. Yeah marketing is a bit vague unfortunately, confusing people. “Wi-Fi Dual Station does not aggregate the total speed of these streams since they are effectively streaming the same data in parallel. So, while this technology will improve latency and jitter, it...
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    Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 revealed

    No It’s just a WiFi/Bluetooth radio platform naming scheme. “FastConnect is the name of Qualcomm Technologies’ integrated advanced connectivity subsystem spanning Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other non-cellular connectivity technologies within the Snapdragon Mobile and Compute Platforms”...
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    Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 revealed

    FastConnect is just a model/platform naming scheme not a feature in itself.
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    Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 revealed

    @TheLostSwede Qualcomm calls it Dual Band Simultaneous, I do recall some Dell XPS laptops like the XPS 9500 were announced that were available with the option of a “Killer AX500-DBS” (likely a QCA6390?) limited to HT80. Seems like a rare chip though in the wild compared to the Intel AX2XX series.
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    Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 revealed

    Double connect was advertised for the Killer AX1690/Intel AX411. Saw it advertised while looking at a recent ASRock Motherboard announcement that had a 1690. I think Razer too May have mentioned dual connect for their refreshed laptops. Here’s another link (about half way down)...
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    Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 revealed

    TWT and Uplink MU if I recall we’re advertised by QCA back in 2017 for the IPQ807x series. In reality however Gen 1 807X for example, I think was missing uplink MU (ie Asus AX89U / Netgear RAX120v1), took a second revision for it (ie Netgear RAX 120v2). Not sure about Broadcom though in regards...
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    Will a new modem increase my network speed?

    The dual NSS offload cores were’t functional in OpenWRT, I think somone is still working on getting them working. Those tests were purely using the main 1.7 GHz Cortex A15 cores without NAT acceleration. Of corse using SQM Piece of cake or any other QoS would really start sapping WAN throughput...
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