Has anyone with the MSI Tomahawk MAG X570 board (or similar) created a wifi6 network?

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Hi all,

As per the title, has anyone got this board or similar and if so is it possible to create an independent wifi6 network using the integrated wifi6 on the board, whilst you also have your traditional household wifi network in place and your pc connected over ethernet to that network as well?

I.e you have an existing router (supplied by your broadband provider most likely) and you're connected to it via ethernet. Other devices in the house connect to this wirelessly like phones, ipads, your NAS, etc.

At the same time, you have your integrated wifi6 on your motherboard creating its own wifi6 network, with its own connection password etc.

Is this possible? The reason Im asking is for Quest 2 wireless streaming.

The wifi6 network would only be active when the PC was switched on of course.

The PC would be connected to both networks at the same time, one by ethernet, and one created by its own internal wifi6.

Thanks.
 
mickyflinn said:
Set your Windows 10 PC to act as a Wi-Fi extender

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/windowsreport.com/use-pc-as-wifi-extender/?amp
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If doing that, would the streaming signal go direct from the PC to its internal wifi6 aerial, or would it simply boost the existing wifi signal from the router (meaning the streaming signal would have to go via ethernet to the router then over wifi back to the pc to then be 'extended'? I don't know much about these things so I might not be explaining it very well.

Basically Im thinking to eliminate the ethernet link altogether so the PC streams to the Quest 2 directly from its own internal wifi6 aerial.
 
danlightbulb said:
If doing that, would the streaming signal go direct from the PC to its internal wifi6 aerial, or would it simply boost the existing wifi signal from the router (meaning the streaming signal would have to go via ethernet to the router then over wifi back to the pc to then be 'extended'? I don't know much about these things so I might not be explaining it very well.

Basically Im thinking to eliminate the ethernet link altogether so the PC streams to the Quest 2 directly from its own internal wifi6 aerial.
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I think it just acts like hotspot boosting the signal but I do know enough about it.

Other option is to try it without the cable see what happens.
 
I really don't know enough about networking to try and explain what my thought process is, so I have drawn it:

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This is now duplicating another thread over in the VR section but I don't know if posters in this section would look there.
 
Basically PC to have two separated networks, one using it's ethernet capability to connect to a router for broadband like any typical setup, and another using the built-in wifi to connect solely to the quest2.

The wifi network would need to be a separate subnet from the ethernet network.
The PCs wifi configuration would need to be set to supply IP addresses, as I assume the quest2 wifi configuration requires it to be supplied with one, i.e. it's unlikely to have a config option to allow one to be specified.

The appropriate network would need to be selected on the quest2 as required. When you wanted to stream from the PC, select the PC wifi network SSID, when you want the quest2 connected to the internet, select the router wifi SSID.

Question, assuming it's setup correctly, How does (for example) Virtual desktop streaming app know which network to use to connect to look for the quest2. Does VD have an option to pick a network ?
 
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tangey said:
The PCs wifi configuration would need to be set to supply IP addresses, as I assume the quest2 wifi configuration requires it to be supplied with one, i.e. it's unlikely to have a config option to allow one to be specified.
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Makes sense. From the Quest point of view, the wifi6 network created by the PC needs to look exactly like a normal household network that you would find on a typical broadband router.


tangey said:
The appropriate network would need to be selected on the quest2 as required. When you wanted to stream from the PC, select the PC wifi network SSID, when you want the quest2 connected to the internet, select the router wifi SSID.
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Yes and no.

Yes - The Quest will be able to store multiple wifi networks just like a phone does. However I guess only one will be default, so it will probably be necessary to manually switch between the two networks when they are both active, on occasion.

No - the quest should be able to see the internet through the PC connection with the existing broadband router as well? When the PC is active, the quest is only connected to the PC's wifi6, but it should also be able to 'see' the internet (and NAS) on network 1 through the PC's link with the original router? Does the PC pass through the internet connection from network 1 into network 2?


tangey said:
Question, assuming it's setup correctly, How does (for example) Virtual desktop streaming app know which network to use to connect to look for the quest2. Does VD have an option to pick a network ?
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Good question. The PC will see two different networks, one it is a slave on and one it is hosting.
 
Did you ever get this working? I can achieve my PC broadcasting a wifi network that I can connect devices (in my case, like yours, a Quest 2) to, but windows says it's 5GHz, which ... from what little I know is not wi-fi 6, since that's 6GHz.

I've tried tweaking network card settings to only use wifi6, but then the hotspot shuts down. Again, there's every chance that when I change those settings, I'm mucking it up anyway, so I don't know if it's impossible, or I just don't know what I'm doing.
 
Oh OK, so ... how do I know if it's using wi-fi 6 or not? Is there even any real advantage? I hear about higher bandwidth and lower latency ... I don't think the bandwidth is really necessary for the Quest 2 since the bitrate for the video I believe is limited to 500 mbps and I get around 800 on 5GHz anyway, and I'm not sure if lower latency is actually improved with just 1 thing on the network anwyay.

But it'd be nice to know if it is wifi 6 or not, and to therefore just have eliminated a potential bottleneck
 
I'm currently setting this up. I can get my Quest 2 to connect to my Tomahawk x570 mobo and it's all working but it hits a hard ceiling of 286Mbps. I haven't tried different drivers or messing around yet (about to do that) but thought I'd check in here to see if anyone else has got this working well?

Otherwise there's always the option of a £50 Huawei AX3 AX3000.

Edit: Actually, the link cable is good enough.
 
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It's one of those things that you can do, but don't..

Get an access point if you want more WiFi, connect that up via ethernet.
 
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