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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
BrianL wrote:
Can you reach out to NETGEAR support to report this?
What do you expect Netgear Support should do on what is an obvious useless UI implementation?
The predefined sets for automatic are ok I guess. Interestingly, the newer work-in-progress-build I've received does still allow to deselect random channels (marked yellow). However, on [Save] I get a message (a simple text pop-up) stating "This configuration method is not supported".
In my opinion, this is not sufficient, the UI should not allow the user to deselect random channels, leading to an invalid config, and leaving back the admins in the field with questions - and the valid complaint - as coming from the OP here.
And no, I was never involved in any Beta testing for these essential APs.
schumaku - Could you suggest a channel combination that excludes channel 1 and is valid? My printer (Brother HL-L2380DW) cannot find the wireless SSID when the access point uses channel 1. It is able to find the SSID when using channel 6.
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
BrianL - I tried submitting a hardware support request multiple times tonight and each time I see this response:
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