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5Ghz channels
Hello, I saw this topic here. But I would like understand why all upper 5Ghz channels are unavailabled for the clients. In Europe, at least in France, we can use the next channels in 80Mhz : ...
Hi
I agree with all the points in this thread and submitted an idea to Negear to address this major product flaw. See https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/Please-provide-more-5GHZ-wifi-channel-options-restricting-to/idc-p/1641642#M1785
Please give it Kudos and try and get Negtgear to look at it as it's not even been reviewed yet - Negear keeping asking for product feedback but very very slow in even responding to ideas and so far only 1 idea submitted (out of hundreds) has been implemented.
It definately impacts my 5HGZ performance as I live in a very congested 5GHZ area which means even when I'm only 20 feets from the main Orbi router my iPhone keeps switching to 2.4GHZ signal as it can't lock onto the 5GHZ from the Orbi as too many other signals near by! Which defeats the object of having mesh network as I get worse speeds near the router than I would with my old Apple Airport Extreme!
Follow on from my last post - looks like we need at least 179 kudos points to get this to the top of the idea list. So please if you see this thread and agree this is any issue worth fixing just click on Kudos. Personally I think there are much more marginal improvements on the idea list that would only benefit a small proportion of users, but fixing this issue would improve the product perfoirmance for everyone that lives in an urban area with congested 5GHZ usage.
Thanks for your support!