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disable wireless backplane to avoid high frequency channels
I first got the Orbi mesh because our house did not have ethernet pulled to different parts of the house and i used the wireless backplane. We are in a new house now with wired cat 6 to several poi...
All I can find is an article on "Troubleshooting" that confirms that the 700 headset is capable of using both 2.4G and 5G bands. It recommends turning off one of the WiFi bands and letting the headset have unrestricted use of the other. But, I see no mention of HOW the user would tell the XBox and headset to use a specific band:
My reason for wanting to know the specific frequency band uses by the headset is pretty simple. Even "super high quality" sound cannot require more than a 20MHz channel width. That could be relatively simple to avoid, if only we knew what it is. The WiFi channel is different in the US than in Europe because of radio regulations.
There was a post back in March, 2020 where the user reported a method to disable the backhaul radio. It would be a good idea to back up the configuration in case the Orbi has to reset if (when?) this does something horrible:
No warranty (from me) that this works today or will work in the future.
Just personally, I would prefer that expensive consumer products have a better way to deal with WiFi interference than recommend, "Turn off your WiFi router".
Ya when it comes to some consumer devices, some mfrs don't care what there devices do or happen to be suseptible to wifi noise and interferences.
And for the cost of the wireless head set, there is a wired comparable headset as well. Avoid the wifi hassle and go wired IMO.
Good Luck.
Yes I agree. The only thing that has my geek still looking at this is, if I am completely wiring my backplane satellites I am not sure anything should be still going over the backplane, so I would like the option to turn that off or in full disclosure know nothing is still going over that higher end channel. It seems to me that stuff is stil going over the wireless backplane.
Is seems the backhaul channel is always on regardless of ethernet use or not. One reason maybe that NG wants the ability of the RBS to re-connect wirelessly should the ethernet connection go down or be disconnected by the user. So the backhaul is always enabled.
bhenry wrote:It seems to me that stuff is stil going over the wireless backplane.
I guarantee that WiFi channel at least has the usual management traffic ("beacon" frame, etc.) I don't use ethernet backhaul, or I would try the "radio hack" just for entertainment. It shouldn't totally hose the router.