That’s what I thought, too. Would be just something to play with, nothing for a productive environment.
They will suffice.
There’s a difference between 2,4GHz and 5GHz wires that defines the gain the antennas can reach (that’s why dedicated antennas will always beat mixed ones like those shipped with our dear TOs), but I think that will be irrelevant due to the sheer amount of antennas needed - have a look into the currently available ax-routers which are real antenna-beasts…
There’s something else that came to my mind - even if there is a full blown card available, we will not be able to use the full bandwidth in the 5GHz band. The 1.1Gbps on 2.4 GHz will be no problem, but 4.8 Gbps on 5 GHz? Does anyone know how fast mPCIe is connected to CPU? Because that will limit the connection and thereby the possible bandwidth…
probably bears down to
mvebu-pcie soc:pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 6820 (rev 04)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 6820 (rev 04)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 6820 (rev 04)
bus version 1.1 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 and number of lanes 1 | 4 | 8 | 16 and coding (ballast)
| PCIe version | bandwidth per link | x1 | x4 | x8 | x16 | Coding (balast in %) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.5 GT/s | 2.5 Gbit/s | 250 Mbyte/s | 1 Gbyte/s | 2 Gbyte/s | 4 Gbyte/s | 8b10b / 20% |
| 2 | 5 GT/s | 5 Gbit/s | 500 Mbyte/s | 2 Gbyte/s | 4 Gbyte/s | 8 Gbyte/s | 8b10b / 20% |
| 3 | 8 GT/s | 10 Gbit/s | 0.9846 Gbyte/s | 3.938 Gbyte/s | 7.877 Gbyte/s | 15.754 GByte/s | 128b/130b / <2% |
| 4 | 16 GT/s | 20 Gbit/s | 1.969 GByte/s | 7.877 Gbyte/s | 15.754 Gbyte/s | 31.508 GByte/s | 128b/130b / <2% |
| 5 | 32 GT/s | 3.9 Gbyte/s | 15.8 Gbyte/s | 31.5 Gbyte/s | 63 Gbyte/s | 128b/130b / <2% |
Not sure but seems that MV6820 provides PCIe 3 on the PHY Datapath Width Mode. Unclear the number of lanes, probably not 16 since that usually applies to GPUs.
The next bottleneck are then the 1GbE ethernet ports, upstream or downstream where the bandwidth gets throttled.
Well, this one features a reasonably 4 antenna count (not pertinent to the thread - just saying)
connecting a UART console it shows (output depending on the hardware installed)
Detected Device ID 6820
board SerDes lanes topology details:
lane # speed type 0 6 SATA0 1 5 USB3 HOST0 2 5 PCIe1 3 5 USB3 HOST1 4 5 PCIe2 5 0 SGMII2
If that is any indication to go by it would seem to be single lane (x1) for each PCIe slot.
If it is indeed PCIe3 x1 for the slot with the Wlan card it would mean max. 0.9846 Gbyte/s (less protocol overhead) and thus render 5GHz ax superfluous in terms of expanding bandwidth on that spectrum.
deriving from
ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 6 Gbps
it would seem that the speed tags listed in the above topology table are indicative of the PCIe link’s bandwidth in Gbps.
SGMII2 = Serial Gigabit MediaI Independent Interface and 2 likely indicating 2.5GBASE-T (over legacy Cat5e/6 cabling) according to IEEE 802.3bz
Thus the speed tag 0.
If @Pepe or someone from Turris Team will read this they could also tell if it maybe would be possible to make mPCIe ax card to future-proof Omnia and Mox devices. I know that it’s very hard to do it and number of chips/cards must be high but it can be “solved” using Indiegogo. I would personally prefer at least two form factors/versions - half one for NB (1x1 2x2 or whatever could be packed in such size and reasonable price) and full for Omnia (3x3?)
Don’t know about the M but the TO would require a new board and other hardware components if
is meant for w/lan bandwidth in excess of 1GByte/s.
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/mt7621-hw-flow-offload-and-4x4-4-n-ac-wifi-router/40674
could break even as of today’s pricing basket, after
, at the equivalent of ~ USD 900K. Projecting that on serial production output of 1,000 pieces makes it ~ USD 900 a piece, that is non-profit.
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/mt7621-hw-flow-offload-and-4x4-4-n-ac-wifi-router/40674/5
802.11ax does improve the situation again (even if you only have 802.11ac clients), but currently none of these devices/ targets are supported by OpenWrt (there seems to be some initial work on ipq807x and ath11k, but I wouldn’t expect that to become ready within the next couple of months).
So after FTTH, now even DOCSIS https://www.marketscreener.com/SERCOMM-CORPORATION-6495319/news/Sercomm-Announced-the-World-s-First-Verified-for-Interoperability-DOCSIS-3-1-Device-with-2-5Gbps-E-29146482/ passed the 1 gig mark, and with that over 100 million customers that need faster routers.
Would be nice to have something from you guys, because your stuff is awesome and i miss it.
Sry to write this, but did you read what @anon50890781 wrote above? On Turris Omnia there is speedwise no option for WiFi6 (but maybe in far future with USB-WiFi6?). On MOX it might in theory be an option (modules are interconnected with 2,5GB/s - but that is shared ressources and MOX lacks 2,5GBE upstream connectivity), but the only available WiFi 6-card on the market by now is crippled 2×2 and necessary drivers are not available (but you may try and compile the Intel sourcecode yourself, I linked it somewhere above).
That device is foremost a cable modem with added router capability, whilst TO provides router products without modem capability.
That aside the mentioned device does not look like to feature any Wlan capabilities, let alone WiFi6
i gave up on mox and omnia, they won’t handle the bandwidth i think. I look for a Omnia v2 with WAN 2,5 gig and atleast one LAN 2,5 gig port
That is only a modem no Router
So, why mention a cable modem without WiFi in this thread about WiFi 6? The TO is on par on the upstream WAN bandwidth with what that cable modem is capable of.
Because you need a faster WAN port to feed the wifi, the TO does only have gigabit and the modem can provide 2,5 gig, how is that on par?
I just wanted to point out that the complete eco system is shifting beyond gigabit and that where are no real solutions beside using the router of the ISP or building something your own with x86 and Intel X550-T2 as router. I’m not a fan of both.
TO provides 2.5G in the SFP cage.
Perhaps you are lucky if such broadband capacity is provided at your location. Even in Europe there are a lot of places that not even get 100M, let alone less developed places.
But I am digressing from the WiFi6 topic.
Maybe you could collaborate with TO to get a new crowd funding campaign going for a new router device.
Yes but it is shared and not dedicated afaik? or am i wrong at that? also going TP -> media converter to SFP -> omnia is not really a nice solution i would say.
Vodafone bought in many countries the DOCSIS networks from liberty global and they will provide for 2/3 till the end of the year gigabit, which is in reality 1150 mbps. And they currently work at a new box which does have 2,5 gbps LAN ports and they are looking to launch it mid next year with 2 gbps offers bundled
that are 8 million customers in germany alone and many more in other vodafone countries.
So i don’t see how that is beeing lucky, looks more like mainstream to me with now the big players hopping on the <1 gbps train.
that would be nice.
That is WAN on CPU port, shared how and amongst what?
For DSL one needs a modem, for cable one needs a modem.
Compared to roughly 41.5 million households in Germany that would seem hardly like mainstream, but that is perhaps a matter of perspective.
That aside the ISP with such a large user base has different ways to subside the cost for CPE, let alone buying power when procuring CPE (components) from manufacturers - nothing TO could compete with.
How many out of the cited potential 8 million households do you reckon will spring in excess of 300 bucks for a single piece of CPE?
That is cable and requires a modem and them being bulky by design.
You are mixing up TO and MOX. MOX shares a 2,5GB/s on the interconnections but NOT on any mPCIe (where it is necessary to plug a WiFi card) and NOT on WAN- or LAN-ports.
I thought it had been clarified somewhere else that this port is only in theory 2,5GBE but connection to CPU is limited to 1GBE. But there’s anyhow no real world scenario that includes the SFP that can help on this topic.
I think one must accept that TO will not go beyond 1GBE connectivity. True 1GBE yes - even with WiFi(5) -, but not beyond.
A potential option is the MOX - so this would be an option for an access point - but that would require new modules with 2,5GB/s mPCIe and 2,5GBE WAN to be developed…