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What Back-haul Channels are Available?
Hey gang, I just bought an RB50 pair and have 2 questions. Can I adjust the bandwidth of the backhaul channel down to say, 20MHz? If they are .11ac radios, a higher MCS on a 20MHz channel migh...
Orbi doesn't support any user configurations of the backhaul. Only the main front haul is available for user adjustments. Only 4 channels available on 5Ghz(36-48). All channels available on 2.4Ghz. The backhaul is handle automatically.
What Channels does it "automatically" select from for backhaul?
Can I edit the backhaul to use 20MHz Channels?
149 thru 161 on 5Ghz.
You can set 20/40Mhz or 40Mhz only. This is for 2.4ghz. The backhaul on 5Ghz can't be changed as its max rate is 80Mhz for 1733Mbps on 5ghz on the 50 series Orbi.
That is terrible, you double your noise floor with every channel bonding I would get better results out of a single 20MHz 5GHz channel than sitting there and having to fight CCI contention.
Netgear REALLY needs to make it an ability to hardset the backhaul channels/channel width.
The main design of Orbi is to have the fast backhaul speed of 1733Mbps. This would not be achieved if the channel width was set to 20Mhz. Most home routers don't support 20Mhz on 5Ghz either. 40Mhz is as low as most go when this is supported in the UI. This is MESH so different handling and operation here.