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Does Orbi Use HT160 Larger Channel Widths?
What exactly are the capabilities of the Orbi system? I find their specs vague and misleading, but maybe that’s just me. For example, I have Spectrum Gig service, 940Mbps wired, and I am barely gettin...
Current wireless performances and link rates will not support 1Gb speeds especially thruput speeds as wired 1Gb does. Wired will always have better performances and link rates then wireless. If you need 160 wireless then other routers that NG has do support 160. I can think of 3 of them off hand. The Orbi will never support 160 as it's intended design meets the criteria for MESH and better coverage and performances for this kind of system. Also 160 its still not a major protocol right now and is not common or widely used in the average home or average client side HW. Maybe as time goes and with the advent of wireless AX now on the horizon, will have to see how things go with new tech coming out next year.
If you want and have need for 160 wireless, find you a router that supports it. NG has a few.
I'm still waiting on 10Gb wired support for me. :smileyvery-happy:
It does support HT160, but not exactly out of the box. You need to use the 2nd 5g antenna array (4x4) to access HT160. You also need to set the proper region code to get access to the channels (or set it in UCI or DNI directly).
root@RBR50:/# wlanconfig ath2 list active
Channel 132 : 5660 *~ Mhz 11na C CU V VU V80-138
Channel 136 : 5680 *~ Mhz 11na C CL V VL V80-138
Channel 140 : 5700 *~ Mhz 11na C V
Channel 149 : 5745 Mhz 11na C CU V VU V80-155
Channel 153 : 5765 Mhz 11na C CL V VL V80-155
Channel 157 : 5785 Mhz 11na C CU V VU V80-155
Channel 100 : 5500 *~ Mhz 11na C CU V VU V80-106 V160-114
Channel 104 : 5520 *~ Mhz 11na C CL V VL V80-106 V160-114
Channel 108 : 5540 *~ Mhz 11na C CU V VU V80-106 V160-114
Channel 112 : 5560 *~ Mhz 11na C CL V VL V80-106 V160-114
Channel 116 : 5580 *~ Mhz 11na C CU V VU V80-122 V160-114
Channel 120 : 5600 *~ Mhz 11na C CL V VL V80-122 V160-114
Channel 124 : 5620 *~ Mhz 11na C CU V VU V80-122 V160-114
Channel 128 : 5640 *~ Mhz 11na C CL V VL V80-122 V160-114
Channel 161 : 5805 Mhz 11na C CL V VL V80-155
Channel 165 : 5825 Mhz 11na C V
It only really makes sense to do if you're running a wired backhaul or not looking for a mesh configuration. While you can convert the 1st array of 5g antennas to run the backhaul, with them being 866.7 Mb/s, it doesn't make a lot of sense if you're planning on ever having very high speed devices or a lot of devices connect to a satellite.
Lots of interesting things you can do with Orbi if you spend a few long nights learning OpenWRT.