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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 : ...
I'm not sure what you're saying isn't true. Here in the US, my Orbi is using 80 MHz channel 157 for the backhaul.
I suspect Orbi reserves the right to use DFS channels for the backhaul, if necessary, but it's behind the scenes and not something the user has access to adjust.
st_shaw wrote:
I'm not sure what you're saying isn't true. Here in the US, my Orbi is using 80 MHz channel 157 for the backhaul.
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I meant the statement that "Unless you allow DFS, which it seems no NETGEAR routers do" :)
In fact, in Europe, only the DFS channels are being used for backhaul in Orbi!
I think that Orbi will select DFS channels also in the US if channels 149-161 (which are allowed in the US) are busy!
Those DFS channels -by definition- are not to be manually selected by users.