[PROBLEM] No WiFi 6 with MT7921 USB Wifi stick

[Tim Curtis]

As I see it, the WiFi Stick is connected to the 5GHz network and channel 48.

pi@Moode-Wohnzimmer:~ $ nmcli -f CHAN,RATE,SECURITY,SSID -t dev wifi
48:540 Mbit/s:WPA2:FRITZ!Box 7490
pi@Moode-Wohnzimmer:~ $

But Moodaudio still shows 130Mbt/s and channel 6.

Wireless networks on the 5Ghz band generally perform better than those on the 2.4GHz band due to less congestion and interferrence from other networks.

Address method

Address: 192.168.178.50
Network: FRITZ!Box 7490 (44:f7:70:b1:c8:5b), WPA2
Channel: 6, 130 Mbit/s, qual 100%, level -24 dBm

If I enter the iw dev wlan0 link command, it comes.

pi@Moode-Wohnzimmer:~ $ iw dev wlan0 link
Connected to 44:f7:70:b1:c8:5b (on wlan0)
       SSID: FRITZ!Box 7490
       freq: 5240
       RX: 37236242 bytes (34617 packets)
       TX: 4980510 bytes (25890 packets)
       signal: -30 dBm
       rx bitrate: 1200.9 MBit/s 80MHz HE-MCS 11 HE-NSS 2 HE-GI 0 HE-DCM 0
       tx bitrate: 1200.9 MBit/s 80MHz HE-MCS 11 HE-NSS 2 HE-GI 0 HE-DCM 0

       bss flags:      short-slot-time
       dtim period:    1
       beacon int:     100

Funny, why does Moodaudio not show the right transmission speed and the WiFi type.

To mention it again, the FRITZ! Box 7490 is the modem, the WiFi Router is an Xiaomi BE6500

I tested on a couple of my systems and the info on Network Config matches the command output. Its not obvious to me what might be happening on your end.

Code:

# Get the connected SSID
pi@moode9:~ $ iwconfig wlan0 | grep 'ESSID' | awk -F':' '{print $2}' | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'
AirnetN5

# Get the channel|rate|secprotocol for the connected SSID
pi@moode9:~ $ nmcli -f CHAN,RATE,SECURITY,SSID -t dev wifi | grep "AirnetN5"
44:405 Mbit/s:WPA2:AirnetN5