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MR1100 not connecting to 2.4 ghz band
I have recently purchased the new Netgear Highthawk router/hotspot through AT&T Mobility. The unit is great and worked for about 5 days before it stopped allowing access to the internet. I have a c...
Are you living close to lots of other neighboring routers? The fact that the 5GHz signal doesn't easily pass through obstacles would explain why your signal wouldn't be too badly affected by other routers, but of course, the 2.4GHz travels much further. Does your Wi-Fi analyzer allow you to see the other SSID's from neighboring routers, or at least tell you how many other routers are using the same 2.4GHz channel? If not, it would be worth finding an app that does. I'm using one from Netgear but they seem to have removed this from the Play Store (Android only). There's another Android app called WifiAnalyzer (open source) from VREM - I haven't used this myself but it seems to have similar features.
I suppose the only problem with manually selecting a specific channel rather than leaving the M1 to auto select the best channel is that the neighboring routers are probably also hopping around to find the best channel and they could end up conflicting with your fixed channel setting.