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Full 5 GHz channels on Orbi AX (RBK853)?
I noticed my Orbi RBK853 only has 4 5 GHz channels listed: 36, 40, 44, and 48. How do I enable the additional ones? The Wi-Fi Analytics feature on the Orbi app is recommending channels 132, 149, or 161 to minimze intereference but I don't see those options. Are those channels hidden and how do I enable them? Telnet?
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Neither: Wireless backhaul is using the higher chanels for it's 160 MHz backhaul - fronthaul is always using the low channels only.
The wireless backhaul is not user configurable.
dtay wrote:I noticed my Orbi RBK853 only has 4 5 GHz channels listed: 36, 40, 44, and 48. How do I enable the additional ones? The Wi-Fi Analytics feature on the Orbi app is recommending channels 132, 149, or 161 to minimze intereference but I don't see those options. Are those channels hidden and how do I enable them? Telnet?
FURRYe38 wrote:The wireless backhaul is not user configurable.
dtay wrote:I noticed my Orbi RBK853 only has 4 5 GHz channels listed: 36, 40, 44, and 48. How do I enable the additional ones? The Wi-Fi Analytics feature on the Orbi app is recommending channels 132, 149, or 161 to minimze intereference but I don't see those options. Are those channels hidden and how do I enable them? Telnet?
Even if i'm not using wireless backhaul? My satellites are connected via wired.
Yep. Can't do that. Been like that since the start. I think one reason is that they want the backhaul up and running in case the wired connection goes down or the user disconnects, so the RBS and re-establish the wireless backhaul automatically.
