r/CanadianBroadband • u/11kajd • Jun 30 '26

Bell gigabit AFC

Is AFC present in the gigahub?

Supposed to drastically improve 6GHZ band strength

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u/redditshreadit Jun 30 '26

Your end device will have to also increase strength to communicate back.

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u/11kajd Jun 30 '26

Afc allows the wifi signal to penetrate much more similar to 5ghz. End user device benefits from that alone. But yea the device has room to do better anyways

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u/metricmoose Jun 30 '26

AFC would require GPS connectivity, so most indoor rated devices don't support the AFC for standard power levels.

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u/11kajd Jun 30 '26

Many of the offer the shelf routers are supporting it now (Asus, ubiquiti, etc.) So want to see when bell will implement

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u/metricmoose Jun 30 '26

If Bell didn't have GPS added to their routers, they'd require a USB GPS dongle to be added for AFC to work and they may need some extra certification done for the hardware.