@martijn86 there was another thread here on the board (or reddit, I forget) that indicated that the EAP660 and 620 would be delayed until the Summer.  But you are correct, I haven't seen an official announcement

Are you planning a new deployment?  Or a new upgrade?

Either way, keep in mind that new software is often very buggy for the first year or so.  I'm not sure I'd want to make the switch so soon after any new product is introduced (from any vendor)

Do you have any data to suggest 802.11ac is not fast enough for your needs?  I've got Gigabit FIOS at home with ~40 Wifi clients (two EAP225's and one OC200 connected to the FIOS router, Wifi on router is disabled). 

Peak bandwith from an EAP225 V3 to an inidividual 802.11ac client is around 400-450 Mbit DL and a little higher on the upload.

I backup a number of PC's to the Cloud (Acronis) nightly and my kids stream all day on their tablets and Roku while my wife and work from home (shelter in place) with 6+ laptops.

While I'm a "tweaker" as well.  The reality is that for $58 each on Amazon the EAP225V3's are incredibly performant.  While they do support Wireless MESH as well, hardwire is still the best choice.  I have one directedly connected to my FIOS router.  The other traverses a MOCA 2.0 Bridge.

All the best,

Jonathan

JSchnee21 wrote

Do you have any data to suggest 802.11ac is not fast enough for your needs?  I've got Gigabit FIOS at home with ~40 Wifi clients (two EAP225's and one OC200 connected to the FIOS router, Wifi on router is disabled). 

@JSchnee21 

With two EAP330's, my issue is not bandwidth. I'm eager to upgrade to AX because up to AC I've been dissatisfied with WiFi. My wish is to eventually use wireless laptops and cellphones for Game Streaming. At the moment, congestion from the neighbours WiFi, Bluetooth devices etc are causing inconsistent latency. The more connected IoT devices, the more they need to que packages causing even more delays. All my hope is on bidirectional MU-MIMO, OFDMA and spacial frequency reuse to finally make WiFi a good alternative to 1Gbit ethernet.

At the same time I'm switching to 10Gbit ethernet in the walls for switches and AP backbones. 

Hi @martijn86,

Well, wireless will always have a higher latency than hardwire.  If you're really concerned about a few extra milliseconds then ethernet is the way to go.  Siilarly, DOCSIS will always be slower than fiber.

-Jonathan

@R1D2 You get it. Again it is not about bandwidth. Omada works great and just like my wired connection, the latency is only 4ms. On WiFi however, it isn't constant and once in a while it will spike to 200ms. Before WiFi 6(e), that was just the nature of the beast, but I really think AX can be a revolution. I like to optimize my network, work out all the kinks like bufferbloat, physical ap locations etc and overcoming the problems of congested radio bands is just something that's long overdue for universally usable WiFi.