{"id":694,"date":"2020-11-02T13:19:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/?p=694"},"modified":"2021-09-22T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:32:28","slug":"engenius-ecw260-outdoor-range-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/02\/engenius-ecw260-outdoor-range-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"EnGenius Cloud Managed ECW260 Wi-Fi 6 Outdoor Access Point Range Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0092-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0092-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0092-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0092-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0092-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0092-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I did a quick outdoor range test of the ECW260 Wi-Fi 6 Access Point.  I mounted mid way up a tree and connected to a ECS2512FP multi gigabit PoE switch I was able to link at 2.5Gb over 75 feet of cat5e. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"965\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0093-965x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0093-965x1024.png 965w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0093-283x300.png 283w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0093-768x815.png 768w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0093.png 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> At 20 feet away I was able to get over 400Mbps with my iPhone 12 Pro associated to the 5.8Ghz radio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0094-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0094-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0094-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0094-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0094-768x767.png 768w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0094-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0094.png 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then at 200 Feet from the AP with line of sight I was able to get almost 100Mbps.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"858\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-02-14.34.00.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-02-14.34.00.png 858w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-02-14.34.00-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-02-14.34.00-768x531.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I can see from the cloud client timeline feature that my iPhone switched to the 2.4Ghz radio during the 200 foot test.    Because of the terrain and buildings I was not able to test further but the ECW260 should be able to provide usable Wi-Fi at nearly twice this distance line of sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ECW260 is available here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/store\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=612\">https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/store\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=612<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the ECS2512FP multi gigabit PoE switch is here  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/store\/catalog\/product_info.php?cPath=48&amp;products_id=597\">https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/store\/catalog\/product_info.php?cPath=48&amp;products_id=597<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a quick outdoor range test of the ECW260 Wi-Fi 6 Access Point. I mounted mid way up a tree and connected to a ECS2512FP multi gigabit PoE switch I was able to link at 2.5Gb over 75 feet of cat5e. At 20 feet away I was able to get over 400Mbps with my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/02\/engenius-ecw260-outdoor-range-testing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EnGenius Cloud Managed ECW260 Wi-Fi 6 Outdoor Access Point Range Testing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[228,233,232],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-fi-blog","tag-ecw260","tag-outdoor-wi-fi-6","tag-outdoor-wi-fi-range-test"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-02-13.04.16.png","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keenansystems.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}