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RTS/CTS
I have orbi ax6000 and why is the CTS / RTS value 64 as standard on Orbi ax, when it says on several websites that the value should be 2347 on routers, is there any reason why it is 64?
The 2347 just has been a standard for a while. NG seems to take a different approch for Orbi AX. Seems to work for some, others not so much. Users can change the value to suite there needs. You don't have to leave it at 64.
Just moved back to an RAXE500 and this is a setting that I stumbled on.
Wow... another parameter to fuss with!
I have yet to find evidence that these parameters affect any devices other than the router itself.
I had expected to see some setting in the WiFi beacon frame saying, "This WiFi network has a RTS/CTS setting of...."
(and now, "This WiFi network has a Fragmentation setting of....")
But, have yet to find anything along that line. Thus, my reasoning is along these lines:
- If the RTS/CTS and Fragmentation settings apply only to transmissions by the router, and
- None of the user devices have settings to control them (certainly my Smart Plugs and cameras do not), then
- Setting RTS/CTS and Fragmentation could at most affect about half of the actual WiFi transmissions, but
- When I actually monitor WiFi packets they rarely go over 1,150 bytes (FTP file transfers).
This all remains major Voodoo to me.
