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echo: rberrypi
to: CHRIS ELVIDGE
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2021-01-21 15:45:00
subject: Re: Inbuilt Wifi

On 21/01/2021 15:39, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 21/01/2021 03:24 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> For reasons not pertinent to PIs, I started researching wifi
>> performance, and would like the assembled multitudes to comment on the
>> correctness, or otherwise of what I have found.
>>
>> - All Pis with built-in Wifi use the Broadcomm chip
>> - This chip is not capable of 5Ghz connectivity
>> - Nor is it capable of 40Mhz dual channel operation
>> - ergo it *cannot* connect at *more* than 72Mbps
>>
>> And its often _way_ worse than that.
>>
>>
>
> Both my Pi3B+ connect to my 5Ghz wifi.
>
+++!

can you show what chipsets/drivers and what protocols they are using?

It would be nice to tabulate the results


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