BTW, we’re still FWA not FTTH, so we are standardized on HX510.
Don’t see any real benefit switching to something like HB210, and 3 Ethernet ports on the main router is useful and I don’t want to go down to 2. The other WiFi7 models seem too expensive for us to give out or even lease to customers. But also the trend toward dual band (no 6 GHz) WiFi7 routers disturbs me. Seriously, MLO but no 6 GHz? At least the HB210 has 2.5G ports, even it it’s only 2 of them. Ideally if we could deliver multigig Internet I would like a triband main mesh router with at least 3 x 2.5G ports, and then maybe cheap out for the secondary nodes. Although again, if you have 6 GHz, wouldn’t you want to use that for backhaul? WiFi7 (and soon WiFi8) involves a lot of technical stuff that end customers don’t understand but add cost, hence marketing decisions get made. WiFi6e by definition supports 6 GHz, but Wi-Fi Alliance in their infinite wisdom allows the Wi-Fi 7 cert label on routers that only support 2.4 and 5 GHz. Grrrrr. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2026 10:47 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] TP-Link TAUC Speedtest These will be in a climate controlled environment. I mainly want the option for troubleshooting, but if I had it in-place I would probably do scheduled tests as well. On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 10:39 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I haven’t, so can’t recommend any specific hardware. Does this need to go in non controlled environments? (no heat or A/C) Are you looking for something like a Pi or Radxa board, or more like a mini PC? For TP-Link Aginet, we don’t have much of a support community, there’s an unofficial Facebook group without much activity. But I see ISPs posting there about some TPL routers not being able to keep up with speedtests (devices behind the routers give full speed results but the test from the router doesn’t). I haven’t tried to verify this. But you should probably make sure the speedtests will yield useful results before deploying a bunch of infrastructure for it. Are you looking to do (manual or automated) speedtests from the router? Or for the customer to do it from their devices? And is this part of compliance with a government subsidy program like CAF/RDOF/BEAD? From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2026 9:35 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [AFMUG] TP-Link TAUC Speedtest For those of you using TP-Link routers / TAUC, what are you using for basic speedtest server hardware? I'm looking to deploy something at individual sites, so a small, bare-metal setup would be best. -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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