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YIKES!!! 5GHz Wireless speed has dropped 90%!
I won't bore you all with the discovery and investigation details, but I am seeing WiFi speed on the 5GHz channel, right next to the the RBS960s AND RBR960, of about 15Mbps-50Mbps on a 2GB/200MB Comc...
@plemans - re: did you try the old "change the 5ghz channel"? - good idea I'll try that!
FURRYe38 - no, never saw this in my life on a home network before last night!
plemans I changed it from 48 to 44 - waited to see it update on my WiFi analyzer app - and tested it, No change in performance. I took this snapshot from the signal analyzer, as you can see (highlighted line) it believes it's a strong signal on 5 GHz with up to 2402 Mbps bandwidth. This is so odd.
and your 2.4ghz channels are 40hz wide so there really shouldn't be much for interference on those channels.
What link speed are your connecting devices getting?
Are you using armor? Parental controls?
- The 2.4ghz reference was just it'd be 20hz wide if you had a bunch of wireless signals around you. It won't impact the 5ghz. I'm sure you're aware of that, Just an observation
- FWIW I have had "Enable 20/40 MHz Coexistence" disabled forever.
- Any device that I try Ethernet connected is getting 2250-2350 Mbps
- No Armor, parental controls, VPN, IoT network, Guest Network, dedicated 6GHz network
