Just upgraded to WIFI6 using the upgrade package from Discomp

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The process is relatively straightforward if you have some experience building your own system; I strongly advise to follow the instructions step by step carefully.

Some difficulties I encountered:

  • The pigtails might be difficult to disconnect - take your time and don’t just yank them. Otherwise you might have to repair a connector

  • Some of the holes in the chassis might not be a perfect fit - in my case the 2 and 4th holes have a straight notch to hold the antenna connectors in place… but the connectors did not so I have to widen the holes a bit

  • Each of your installations is unique. In my case, I went for a full factory reset after installing the upgrade package. But in my case I have installed an internal SSD.

In any case, things seem to be working as normal. Below are some photos.

Open the router

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Remove Card

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Install a connect new card

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Reboot

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This is how the Wifi adapters look like after a factory reset.

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You seem to have the diplexers connected wrong. The small Wi-Fi card should be attached to 2.4 ports ports while the big card should be connected to 5G ports of diplexers. On the photo I see that the two cables from one card lead to the left port of one diplexer and right port of the other. That does not seem correct.

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Hi,
could you please measure distance of the side antennas from the corner of router?
Today I have received upgrade kit and as I am a NAS casse owner I’ll be drilling the new holes on my own :grinning:
So I have a rough idea where they should be placed…
Thanks

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Thank you. I will check the connections later today when I am back home, but I wish there was a schematic of the connectors on the cards (CH0, 1, etc) so we could double check the connections.

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I’ll measure them for you but I think you can approximate them from the physical dimensions at the specs: Turris - Specifications

For example, I bought a couple more diplexers for me to experiment, and I bought the 15cm cables which would let me run cables from side to side of the router.

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You have nothing to drill. just use the holes at the rear side. There are originaly 5 holes, two of them have plugs. Just unplug the plugs and you are ok. Jo have to only adjust the holes to round shape (original holes and diplexers have a little bit “flat” upper part).

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So I reconnected the antennas because I had mis-wired 2 of the 2.4Ghz ones and speed in general increased. Thank you @Ondrej_Caletka !

@Drakula The measurement from the back of the router to the center of left pigtail is 3.3cm (33mm).

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Thanks a lot, today I have upgraded. I’ve got bit non standard setup in NAS case so I have enjoyed a bit of drilling :slight_smile:
I’ll post some picture a bit later :smiley:

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