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Scary warning: 40 Mhz and 20 Mhz coexistence?
So I use my Mac's Wireless Diagnostics WiFi scanner tool to find the best 2.4G and 5G wifi channles to use, then enter my two selected channels into the Wireless Settings page of the Netgear Orbi web...
hi , the 2.4 gig wifi world is saturated with users and so as to ensure that this doesnt continue to happen the wifi alliance set a rule that forces the 2.4 gig down to 20mhz in areas where the 2.4 gig is congested and to avoid further congestion , its also called neighbor friendly wifi
so if you disable this setting and force it to run at 40mhz you are just being rude to your neighbors and pretty much giving them the bird
so you can be nice and leave it enabled and everyone will get a bit of bandwidth without too much congestion or you can be a prick and disable it and say screw you to your neighbors
thats your choice
your older 2.4 gig devices will work regardless of if its running at 20mhz or 40mhz
here is a link to help you understand why its there and what it does
http://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN5185.pdf
hi , the 2.4 gig wifi world is saturated with users and so as to ensure that this doesnt continue to happen the wifi alliance set a rule that forces the 2.4 gig down to 20mhz in areas where the 2.4 gig is congested and to avoid further congestion , its also called neighbor friendly wifi
so if you disable this setting and force it to run at 40mhz you are just being rude to your neighbors and pretty much giving them the bird
so you can be nice and leave it enabled and everyone will get a bit of bandwidth without too much congestion or you can be a prick and disable it and say screw you to your neighbors
thats your choice
your older 2.4 gig devices will work regardless of if its running at 20mhz or 40mhz
here is a link to help you understand why its there and what it does
http://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN5185.pdf
Would be nice if we could adjust radio power and turn off unwanted radio altogether used to be able to it got removed last Firmware. Now like a selfish neighbor blasting away radio signals in all directions at full strength and nothing I can do about it anymore more. I have zero use for 2.4GHz but can't adjust power nor turn it off...brilliant design wifi for the future!!