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WiFi Speed and channel
Getting slow speed (45Mbps) for all connected devices from the Orbi WiFi. System is RBR20 and 2 RBS20s. Confirmed that a wired connection to the router (or using the speedtest from the app) provides ...
fmalloy wrote:I notice that in the router page there are only 4 5GHz channels to choose from.
Anything I can do about this?
Short answer: no, you cannot.
5G WiFi channels are regulated in each country. In the US, there are only two blocks of 5G frequencies (channels) that are available for consumer use: Channels 36-48 and 149-161. Orbi uses the lower channels to build an 80mb wide channel for user devices and the upper bunch to build an 80mb channel for communication between Orbi units ("backhaul"). In other countries, other channel groups are used.
Wikipedia has an excellent description of WiFi channels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
Sorry.