<div dir="ltr">Hi Andrew,<div><br></div><div>I don't think that the "Outdoor Only" rules are currently part of the Australian Low Interference of Potential Devices legislation allowing up to 4W in <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px">5725–5850 Mhz </span>at <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2022C00281">https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2022C00281</a></div><div><br></div><div>It is true that this is a requirement in some other jurisdictions, and that some software interfaces provide this guidance for the US market, leading to confusion.</div><div><br></div><div>To confuse things further, Australia *does* have some special rules for higher power outdoor use (100W radios!) of <font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px">5725 to 5875 MHz on point-to-point links, but this requires the registration of an apparatus licence with the ACMA. </span></font><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2013C00368/Html/Text#_Toc360012139">https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2013C00368/Html/Text#_Toc360012139</a></div><div><br></div><div>From memory, these apparatus licences were only available in regional areas.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 09:48, Andrew Radke <<a href="mailto:andrew@osi.com.au">andrew@osi.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I was wondering if there is anyone on the list that I can talk to about Telstra customer router wifi configs that are violating ACMA rules.</div><div><br></div><div>We see lots of Telstra supplied routers that select the *outdoor only* 5.8 GHz spectrum for their 5 GHz WiFi. This interferes with real outdoor links, and unless the router is mounted on a roof it would be in violation of ACMA rules. I’m hoping to get in touch with someone suitable in the team that manages these to get an update done to correctly limit these devices to the indoor spectrum only.</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve included an example scan from a Mikrotik link of ours that had started playing up due to interference below. It shows a Telstra router broadcasting on 5805 MHz running with an 80 MHz bandwidth (eeeC) and on single chain instead of dual chain so that it can bump up it’s output power even higher. In this case it only leaves a single 20 MHz channel, or potentially 30 MHz with certain radios, at the top for anyone else.</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Courier New"> ADDRESS SSID CHANNEL SIG NF SNR<br>AP D0:6F:82:2C:DB:54 TelstraMobile 5260/20-Ceee/ac/DP(-10dBm) -79 -102 23<br>AP 22:B0:01:96:83:D3 Telstra9683CB 5540/20-eeCe/ac/DP(-3dBm) -83 -106 23<br>AP 22:B0:01:96:83:D5 5540/20-eeCe/ac/DP(-3dBm) -85 -106 21<br> P A2:B5:3C:36:A3:FE Telstra36A3FE 5660/20-Ceee/ac/DP(-3dBm) -88 -106 18<br> P 82:90:4C:3A:D2:0C 5660/20-Ceee/ac/DP(-3dBm) -89 -106 17<br>AP D6:35:1D:1B:B7:C3 Telstra1BB7BB 5805/20-eeeC/ac(6dBm) -82 -108 26<br>AP D6:35:1D:1B:B7:C5 5805/20-eeeC/ac(6dBm) -82 -108 26</font></div><div><br><div>
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