Wi-Fi6 in 9130AXI AP manage by 9800 WLC

[adrntrs120]

Hi! Thanks in advance.

I recently got a 9130AXI and a 9800 WLC. I did the setup and everything is working except the Wi-Fi 6. According to the data sheet the 9130AXI support Wi-Fi6 but in the 9800 WLC under

Configuration - Wireless - Access Point 

Total 6 GHz radios : 0
Total 5 GHz radios : 2
Total 2.4 GHz radios : 1

Why I am not able to see any Wi-Fi 6 radio interface?

I setup the WLAN with 6Ghz and 5Ghz status enable and WPA3 as a security. When I tested the connection speed it is 230 Mbs next to the AP.

Thank you in advance.

[Leo Laohoo]

WiFi 6 is 802.11ax. 

6 Ghz is neither WiFi 6 nor 802.11ax.

[adrntrs120]

Thank you so much for your reply. I was confused, I though I can set tup Wi-Fi 6 for these devices since cisco say 9130AXI support Wi-Fi 6. Then I can also use that speed 230 Mbs?

[marce1000]

 - Have a checkup of the 9800 WLC configuration with the CLI command show tech wireless ; and feed the output into :
                                                                                                              Wireless Config Analyzer
 - What software version is the 9800 WLC running ?
 - Note that you also need PMF enabled on the WLAN.

   M.
                                                                                                           

[adrntrs120]

THank you for your reply. I tried that command but gave a very long output and I cannot scroll to the beginning. There is another way to export all that output to test the configuration?

I also update the 9800 software to 17.9.3 same result and then I update to the 17.13.1 version.

I will double check the PMF settings.

[marce1000]

             >... I tried that command but gave a very long output and I cannot scroll to the beginning.
  - You need to save the output of the show tech  wireless command to a file and use that file as input for https://cway.cisco.com/wireless-config-analyzer/   

     It is strongly advised to continue on that since you will get many useful hints and corrections ,

 M.

[Scott Fella]

If you console into the ap and reboot it, do you see anything about hardware failure or if you see entries for the 2.4ghz and 5ghz radio but not the 6ghz?

[David Ritter]

the 9130 ap is a wifi6 ap NOT and wifi6e..  the 'e' means the 6ghz band.  as stated wifi6 means 802.11ax.

However, wifi7 is 802.11be and requires 6ghz support.  Also  6ghz support requires windows11!.

[adrntrs120]

Thanks David. I was confuse with this new terminology. I thought that Wi-Fi 6 will gave me more wireless connection speed at least 500 or 700 Mbs to the clients. When I did the first test just one iPhone 13 connected to the 9130 AP the speed test result with google was 230 Mbs.

[David Ritter]

230mbps sounds about right.  Thruput depends on the number of streams and the functional bandwidth.

that iPhone 13 is maybe 2 streams and your network is most likely 40meg rather than 80 or 160.

[adrntrs120]

Correct, it is 40 MHz channel wide, if I use 80 or 160 will the speed increase?

[Leo Laohoo]

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@adrntrs120 wrote:
if I use 80 or 160 will the speed increase?

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Yes and no. 

1.  That will depend on the wireless client.  If the wireless client has the hardware capable of 80- or 160 Mhz channel width or not.  Unanimous answer is no. 

2.  80- &/or 160 Mhz will depend on how "clean" the channels around the APs are.  If there are a lot of rogues APs, use 20- or 40 Mhz width instead.

[adrntrs120]

Thanks Scott, no hardware failure. I did see the 2.4 and 5 Ghz radio 

[Scott Fella]

Okay.  I thought you had a 9136 ap which does have a 6GHz radio.  The 9130 does not, but you know that now.

[Dipal Thakkar]

 Check the datasheet for the device: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/access_point/9130ax/quick/guide/ap9130ax-getstart.html