EnGenius ECW526

A good-value cloud-managed business Wi-Fi 7 AP with plenty of features and an impressive turn of pace

DAVE MITCHELL

PRICE £225 exc VAT from solwise.co.uk When we reviewed EnGenius’ mighty BE19000-rated ECW536 Wi-Fi 7 access point (see issue 365, p98), we were bowled over by its great combination of features and performance. Its £406 tag may be a bit steep for smaller businesses though, and for them there’s the ECW526, which offers a scaled-down set of Wi-Fi 7 features at a more appealing price. Behind the scenes is the same powerful Qualcomm Networking Pro 1220 hardware platform featuring a 2.2GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A73 CPU. The ECW526 presents six spatial streams – half as many as the ECW536 – but this still delivers an impressive BE9500 rating comprising 5,800Mbits/sec on the 6GHz radio, 2,900Mbits/sec for 5GHz and 720Mbits/sec for 2.4GHz. The AP ensures there are no bottlenecks as it boasts…

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