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Channel usage
Hi all, I am considering buying an Orbi kit, but I am seriously concerned that both the router and satellite use the same frequency channels for client connections. This makes no sense to me. I...
I've been looking through the user manual and I don't see an option to select the 20MHz or 40MHz mode in either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz band. Netgear routers usually let you do this by selecting the speed along with the channel, like 130 or 300 for 802.11n. The only related option I see is to enable or disable 20/40 coexistence. What does this mean? Does Orbi just default to "fat channels", unless prevented by the coexistence mechanism? I'd really like to have more control over this.