ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity

Re:ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity by squarefoot on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:08PM (#38973266)

I wonder if the lack of 5GHz band could be to avoid being forced to become DFS compliant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_frequency_selection

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Re:ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity by phoenk on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:10PM (#38974804)

I would assume it just isn't a requirement in the majority of IoT projects, and omitting it saves on cost.

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Re:ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity by zamadatix on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:46PM (#38976193)

They could just choose to always leave the DFS 5 GHz frequencies disabled but I don't think that's really a huge burden one way or the other after building the rest of a Wi-Fi chip and stack.

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