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WAX218 unable to omit channel 1 from 2.4GHz radio
WAX218 firmware version: 2.1.1.3 When I use the web UI to update the list of channels available to the 2.4GHz radio, the setting is not respected. After applying a channel update to remove channe...
Dear mdmower
Not a set or multiset - because AP the implementation does not allow defining a set of channels for Auto operations, just the predefines sets, and one channel only. Just select -one- channel from the 2.4 GHz band - this works as designed, so put the AP for example to 6.
Odd (however feasible) an industry standard WiFi client does not connect of the AP is configured manually or dynamically to channel 1. More likely, there are massive interferences on the overloaded 2.4 GHz band.
set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(abstract_data_type) ... a wonderful feature my old Professor Niklaus Wirth made popular on Pascal, Modula, .... and carried forward to Ada, C++, SQL, Java, ... too.
Regards,
-Kurt
Admit, Netgear has choosen a very uncommon UI control set - based on what is possible usually in the wireless world, I would expect disabling one channel (#1 in your example), or a random set of channels (like I don't want 1, 4, 10, 12 for example) should be feasible as a limited Auto mode.
More common is just the selection of a dedicated center channel, or auto (where any channel can be chosen).
This looks to me like an overdesigned, and overloaded idea - and not properly implemented.
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