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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...
Hello wireshock
Orbi had band steering and makes that decision on its own to put devices on best possible channel so no way to manually control this.
DarrenM
DarrenM wrote:Hello wireshock
Orbi had band steering and makes that decision on its own to put devices on best possible channel so no way to manually control this.
DarrenM
Hi DarrenM,
Band steering is unrelated to what I was talking about.
I understand that the reason to have the router and satellites operate on the same channel (in either band) is probably to make it easier for clients to roam. This design reduces the total system capacity and leads to potential interference problems, but maybe it does alllow better roaming. OK.
But, why does Orbi not have the option to select the 20MHz or 40MHz mode in either band? All the other Netgear routers have this option. Orbi defaults to 40MHz in the 2.4GHz band, unless prevented by 20/40 coexistence, and it always does 80MHz in the 5Ghz band!