WiFi 7 Support

junpit

junpit

junpit

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I have just bought the X870E ASRock Taichi Lite. It is a very nice board and is running fine bar WiFi.

I believe this issue is nothing specifically to do with AsRock but effects ALL x670,x870,b650 and b850 boards that support WiFi 6E and WiFi 7.

Essentially MS have not enabled 6 ghz and whilst I don’t have a WiFi 7 router, I do have a set of WiFi 6E routers. The speeds from this Mediatek chipset are dreadful and don’t even come close to my iPhone.

10 mb/s on downloads and 90 mbps on a speed test. I have a 500/100 internet connection. have the google nest WiFi pro 2m away from the pc. It’s awful.

Any suggestions on how to get better speeds. I’m running windows 11 2024H2.
 
It’s perfect WiFi conditions. All of the nest WiFi pros are connected via Ethernet backhaul. The room is where I game and is essentially an insulated box with silver backed insulation on all 4 walls, floor and ceiling so there is no WiFi at all without the router in there.

The nest WiFi pros sits 2m away from the mounted antenna.
 
Sure. It’s connected at 1200/1200 using channel 36 and 5Ghz. It says it’s using 802.11ax.

The throughput is however only showing 90 mbps on a speed test and 11 mb/s downloading.

My MacBook Pro is doing the full 500 mbps on a speed test in the same room. It feels like it’s not using the full 160 mhz channel width and that’s the reason for being slow.

I’ll do some more testing.
 
Well…

Everything was reset and everything unplugged including the gigabit switch in the room.

Things have improved. It does 200 mbps on a speed treat now like the MacBook Pro. My iPhone 16 pro max does the full 500 in the same room although it wasn’t doing.

I think it’s only doing 80 mhz channel width like the MacBook Pro and hopefully this will be resolved via a driver soon. I’ll raise it with ASRock.

MORE CONCERNING however is that between last night and this morning the wired network port is not working and does not even have any lights on it. Last night I plugged it in via a long wired cable and it was fine. It lit up orange and windows reported it as connected at gigabit speed. Now windows says it’s disconnected and connecting it to the switch, the nest WiFi or anything via 5 different cables results in no lights. Its faulty. J even checked the bios to make sure it was enabled.

I’m currently stuck with WiFi but 200 mbps is ok.

Perhaps it was the temperature drop overnight as this is my external garage which has been converted. It has ac in there so is heated but it dropped down to 12 overnight.

I can’t live with the wired port as it’s brand new so will have to get in touch with support at OC.
 
That’s interesting. I have 3 m.2 gen 4 drives in it. It’s got 7tb so I wonder if that’s impacting.

Just bought some BE65 WiFi 7 devices from Amazon to see if it will run at full
Speed if I swap them out.
 
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