Netgear WAX220

abgn+ac+ax (AX42002R)
AX4200 Dual Band WiFi 6 Access Point
Homepage	Product page
Wikipedia	Netgear
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Supported
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	Netgear WAX220 Rev 1.0
FCC ID	PY322200567
Type	access point, wireless router
CPU1 Y	MediaTek MT7986AV
CPU1 Type	ARM Cortex-A53
CPU1 Speed	2.0 GHz ( 4 cores ) 64-bit
Flash1 Chip	Winbond W25N01GVZEIG
Flash1 Size	128 MiB 134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> (NAND)
RAM1 Size	1 GiB 1,024 MiB <br />1,073,741,824 B <br />8,388,608 Kib <br />1,048,576 KiB <br />8,192 Mib <br />
RAM1 Chip	Micron MT40A512M16TB-062ER
ETH chip1	MediaTek MT7986AV
ETH chip2	Realtek RTL8221B
Ethernet Port Count	1-2.5GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab/3bz
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Stock bootloader	U-Boot
Expansion IF types	none specified
PoE	802.3at, standard
Power	12 VDC, 2.5 A
Connector type	barrel
Serial Port (UART)	yes, 3.3V TTL, (115200 8N1)
Flags: Wi-Fi 6, WPA3, PoE+
Other
Default IP address: 192.168.0.100 the IP 192.168.0.100 is used by 18 additional devices of which 10 are Netgear devices
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Retail
FCC approval date	16 November 2022
(Est.) release date	06 December 2022
(Est.) initial retail price (in USD):	$199.95
UPC	606449161182 (UPC DB, On eBay)
Newegg	0XP-001M-00H19
ASIN	B0BMW95Q1J
Country of manuf	Vietnam
Radio 1
Chip1	MediaTek MT7986AV
Chip2	MediaTek MT7976CN
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	2x2:2
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ax
802.11ax	up to 574 Mbps
802.11n	up to 300 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
Radio 2
Chip1	MediaTek MT7986AV
Chip2	MediaTek MT7976CN
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	2x3:2
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac/ax
AX-QAM	up to 3603 Mbps
802.11ax	up to 1201 Mbps
802.11ac	up to 867 Mbps
802.11n	up to 300 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz

For a list of all currently documented MediaTek chipsets with specifications, see MediaTek.
For a list of all currently documented Realtek chipsets with specifications, see Realtek.

For a list of all currently documented Netgear devices with specifications, see Netgear.

• 3603 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11ax (160MHz chan. 1024-QAM),

• 574 Mbps - 2SS 2.4GHz 802.11ax (40MHz chan. 256-QAM) = AX42002R class

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Target: mediatek
Subtarget: filogic
Package architecture: aarch64_cortex-a53
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 23.05.0
Current supported version: 25.12.2

LAN Comment: Realtek RTL8221B 2.5Gbe Phy
WLAN Hardware: MediaTek MT7986AV, MediaTek MT7976CN
WLAN Comment: 2.4Ghz MIMO 2x2:2, 5Ghz MIMO 3x3:3
Installation method(s):
TFTP generic, see git-commit
Recovery method(s):
see git-commit

git • >>

filogic: add support for Netgear WAX220 Hardware -------- SOC: MediaTek MT7986 RAM: 1024MB DDR3 FLASH: 128MB SPI-NAND (Winbond) WIFI: Mediatek MT7986 DBDC 802.11ax 2.4/5 GHz ETH: Realtek RTL8221B-VB-CG 2.5 N-Base-T PHY with PoE UART: 3V3 115200 8N1 (Pinout silkscreened / Do not connect VCC) Installation ------------ 1. Download the OpenWrt initramfs image. Copy the image to a TFTP server 2. Connect the TFTP server to the WAX220. Conect to the serial console, interrupt the autoboot process by pressing '0' when prompted. 3. Download & Boot the OpenWrt initramfs image. $ setenv ipaddr 192.168.2.1 $ setenv serverip 192.168.2.2 $ tftpboot openwrt.bin $ bootm 4. Wait for OpenWrt to boot. Transfer the sysupgrade image to the device using scp and install using sysupgrade. $ sysupgrade -n <path-to-sysupgrade.bin>