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Orbi - why can't we change channels on satellites?
Wireless design best practice when installing multiple access points in an area is to have non-overlapping channels. So if you have 3 APs (RBR50, 2-RBS50) in an area, for 2.4 GHz, one AP would be cha...
Thus reducing the power levels on your main router will help in this regard. Espeically with wifi congested areas and nieghbors that or oblivious to what there doing with there routers. Why there is this 20/40Mhz coexistence on most routers. Some Mfrs choose to allow 40Mhz only, this will cause problems with neighbors as well.
I found that reducing power levels on the router helps...Not much you can do with a ton of neighbors blasting wifi all over the place.
10 year old research on the superior performance of multi-channel mesh networks over single channel:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mesh-wcnc2007.pdf