{"id":360,"date":"2019-10-04T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/?p=360"},"modified":"2021-09-22T08:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:37:34","slug":"what-does-the-spectrum-analyzer-plot-of-a-wi-fi-6-connection-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/04\/what-does-the-spectrum-analyzer-plot-of-a-wi-fi-6-connection-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the spectrum analyzer plot of a Wi-Fi 6 connection look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanted to see what the channel spectrum looks like for a Wi-Fi 6 connection.  So I used my Ekahau sidekick spectrum analyzer to look at a connection between a iPhone 11 pro and a Ruckus 8&#215;8 11ax R730 and here is what I saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.00.04-1-1024x552.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.00.04-1-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.00.04-1-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.00.04-1-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.00.04-1.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ran iPerf to fully load the channel you can see the R730 is on channel 149 @ 80Mhz channel width.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.06.31-1-1024x539.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.06.31-1-1024x539.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.06.31-1-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.06.31-1-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-04-08.06.31-1.png 1614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no indicator on the iPhone 11 to show a Wi-Fi 6 connection like there is on a Samsung Galaxy S10.   However if we look at the client list on the Ruckus Zonedirector we see it is connected at 11ax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next I captured a video of the iPhone 11 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S10 both running iPerf servers against different wired clients. You can see the OFDMA Resource Units in action<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5BEPFmB2Ad0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lastly I ran the same test again with a 20Mhz channel here is that video zoomed in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OlzfDR1bNOw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on the Ekahau Sidekick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/store\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=508\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on the Ruckus R730 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/store\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=546\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to see what the channel spectrum looks like for a Wi-Fi 6 connection. So I used my Ekahau sidekick spectrum analyzer to look at a connection between a iPhone 11 pro and a Ruckus 8&#215;8 11ax R730 and here is what I saw. I ran iPerf to fully load the channel you can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/04\/what-does-the-spectrum-analyzer-plot-of-a-wi-fi-6-connection-look-like\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What does the spectrum analyzer plot of a Wi-Fi 6 connection look like?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[8,40,120,121,122,85,37,5],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wi-fi-blog","tag-802-11ax","tag-ekahau-sidekick","tag-ekhau-pro","tag-ofdma-resource-units","tag-ofdma-ru","tag-ruckus-r730","tag-spectrum-analyzer","tag-wi-fi-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}