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sg678
Tutor
May 08, 2019

Does Ethernet backhaul free up the upper 5Ghz channels as they interfere with my old cordless phone

I have a RBK22 from costco. I installed/configured using the default wireless 5Ghz backhaul as an AP. Its working good but I am lot of  interference/static when using my 10 year old cordless phone wh...
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CrimpOn
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May 08, 2019
sg678 wrote:

I have a RBK22 from costco. I installed/configured using the default wireless 5Ghz backhaul as an AP. Its working good but I am lot of  interference/static when using my 10 year old cordless phone which I love ( Panasonic Globarange which operates at 5.74 Ghz ).

Since you already own the Orbi, it should be a simple test to connect the satellite and router with an ethernet cord.  They do not have to be widely separated to run a test.  Let them sync over ethernet, and then "see what happens" to your cordless phone.  Who knows, maybe even though the channels are not "free", maybe the Orbi uses them so little (because of the ethernet link) that most of the static goes away?