What WiFi M2 card to buy for rock5b?

#21

Yes they do include 2 antennas one is wifi the other for bt.
the A8 from all and ameridroid includes them.

#22

I had some concerns before I order a Intel AX210NGW M2 WIFI 6E card.
Today I received my Rock 5B board and tried AX210NGW on it, results are as below on Debian 11.
AX210NGW connected to my modem at 2400 MBits and restriction was on the laptop eth ( 1 gps )

root@rock-5b:/home/rock# iperf3 -s

Server listening on 5201

Accepted connection from 192.168.1.43, port 45620
[ 5] local 192.168.1.103 port 5201 connected to 192.168.1.43 port 45628
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 80.8 MBytes 676 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 103 MBytes 863 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 112 MBytes 936 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 111 MBytes 934 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 58.8 MBytes 492 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 5.00-6.02 sec 43.0 MBytes 353 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 6.02-7.00 sec 92.3 MBytes 793 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 70.7 MBytes 594 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 65.1 MBytes 546 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 112 MBytes 940 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 10.00-10.04 sec 4.18 MBytes 930 Mbits/sec

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 853 MBytes 713 Mbits/sec receiver

root@rock-5b:/home/rock# lspci
0002:21:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 2725 (rev 1a)

After I set the governor to performance, I got better results.

r00t@HP-250-G7:~$ iperf3 -c 192.168.1.103
Connecting to host 192.168.1.103, port 5201
[ 5] local 192.168.1.43 port 34838 connected to 192.168.1.103 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 112 MBytes 936 Mbits/sec 0 1.88 MBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 111 MBytes 933 Mbits/sec 0 2.30 MBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 110 MBytes 923 Mbits/sec 0 2.67 MBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 112 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec 0 2.95 MBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 112 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec 0 3.10 MBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 112 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec 0 3.10 MBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 111 MBytes 933 Mbits/sec 0 3.10 MBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 112 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec 0 3.10 MBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 111 MBytes 933 Mbits/sec 0 3.10 MBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 112 MBytes 944 Mbits/sec 0 3.10 MBytes

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 938 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 1.09 GBytes 931 Mbits/sec receiver

#23

Are you using your wifi as AP? and is your modem also plugged on rock5b?
I’m looking for a setup where rock5b is used as Wifi AP and 4G modem.
Do you think AX210 would be good for that kind of setup?

#24

I received my board yesterday, and I m testing it for now (eth unplugged).
I ordered ax210 for use it on a router set up which will be capable 6e,
But probably I will not set my rock 5b as a router because the gpu is very powerful.
By the way AX210NGW is a good choice for use it as a AP it is stable an fast enough.

After little research I decided to setup my new router with a different board. It may be Rock-Pi-E with OPNSense or a different board with filogic CPU. I did not made my decision yet but it will be a better choice.

#25

Thanks for details, at least I know this card will perform well as wifi AP.
Same for me, not sure if I will use rock5b as router, though it can still be used for other purpose also like development server,…

For now unfortunately GPU is not well exploited at least under linux and when it will, few graphical application will be able to take advantage from it (contrary to Apple who managed to make rosetta emulates X86 apps on M1)

May order other rk3588 based board with 16GB later and use it as desktop replacement.

#26

Hi All,
Just wondering if intel 7265ngw is supported by radxa android build?

No concern on performance(wireless ac is fast enough), just compatibility.

I did try with intel 8265ngw, cant turn on wifi with android.

Thanks.

#27

Current Intel wireless chipsets are the AX200 and AX210. Many of the older models are specific to laptops with functions implemented in the motherboard chipset.

#28

do you know what pin to reconfigure?

#29

AX210NGW doesn’t work with official Android image.

#30

I m using 1.8 build version of ATV Rom made by @mo123 and it works well. (Rock-5b+AX210NGW)

#31

I have issues using ax210 in dietpi. I once had it able to scan AP after installing armbian-firmware-full. But failed in the next reboot. Kernel is 5.10.

#32

Yeah, the AX210NGW does seem like a good pick, but you’re spot on about the Linux kernel support being a bit shaky until 5.13. That could definitely lead to some driver issues right off the bat. If you want something more stable, the AX200 might be the safer choice since it’s been out longer and has better Linux kernel compatibility.