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Wireless Backhaul Channel
I'm really bummed that the wireless backhaul channel is non-configurable. There are two devices that are close to my house that cause interference and renders my wifi network practically unusable wh...
Depending on what country you are in, the Orbi backhaul channel does "hop around", usually to avoid weather radar. In the US, there are pretty strict limits on finding a contiguous group of channels to create the bandwidth Orbi needs for backhaul.
There is a really nice description of Orbi radio channels in this post:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Understanding-Orbi-Radio-Fronthaul-Backhaul/m-p/1671092
There was also an extensive discussion of Orbi backhaul channels in this post:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/5Ghz-channels/m-p/1538610