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Lidelse's avatar
Lidelse
Aspirant
Aug 23, 2025

320 Mhz Channel width on RBE971

My RBE971 and 2 RBE970 will not broadcast 6ghz in 320 mhz channel width.

 

I have some wifi 7 stuff and mostly wifi 6 or 6e and then some older on 5ghz/2.4 for like streaming/IoT stuff.

 

Regardless I am curious if someone knows about this. My wifi 7 connections do show the  MLO like it does on the attached devices part of the router admin panel. with 5ghz + 6 ghz. The advertising as shows the 320  mhz channel width as a feature on the site for the 970. As it should for such an expensive mesh wifi 7 router going for full featured as things like 4kqam and 320mhz are the big deal if you aren't buying the dual channel cheap things.

 

However, anytime I look on something like netspot the 6ghz band is broadcasting in 160 mhz. it doesn't matter if i am right next to it. a few feet away with zero blockage.  even longer as a test. Do these orbi units just not broadcast in 320 if you use wifi 6e? That is generally the other way around and client devices are supposed to go for a 160 mhz channel off 6ghz if wifi 6e but 6ghz is 320 but I am having a bit of confusion on this. since I have never measured a 320 channel from any of these units. like some wifi 6e routers can make a 5ghz band go to 160 mhz but im assuming the 970 doesn't as mine are all 80 and there is no actual option to do so in the settings in admin. 

 

But something has got to be weird right? im only getting 40 80 160 across the board for 2.4/5/6 n    never 320 and if i could get some help that'd be great. I use ethernet a lot when i can but the wifi 7 connection is not great. like I say that, but, I have 2g/1g fiber and if im right in front of the base unit the wifi 7 connection is not what it should be. I get like gigbit down and 600 mbit up. which i can match over 5ghz on a google tv streamer that uses wifi 6 not even 6e connected to my one wireless

backhaul satelite. 

 

if i ethernet directly to the main unit i get 2g/1g, same for the wired backhaul unit too. and the ethernet on the wireless backhaul unit is like 1.8g/700m that eventually will be wired but i live in a house that is nearly 100 years old and finding where to thread the cord is kind of a pain.

 

I attached a netspot readout of mynetwork. circled the satellite im attached to. 6ghz. i didnt want to edit out the admin console but the connection does show 5g+6g meaning it is MLO active. I just want it to be 320. and btw yes I do have a 320 capable nic. its one of those intel killer ones with latest driver set. even says 320mhz when you set it up in device manager on this pc. though say other pcs and phones don't pop it off either to show a 320 broadcast. I am genuinely curious if that is what is tanking my upload speeds? note, I am the only wifi 7 network in the neighborhood. so it shouldn't be something where congestion is messing with 6ghz. there are no other 6ghz routers at all around me.

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  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User

    Will see if we can get some NG review on this. 
    I believe 320Mhz should be seen on the MLO back haul I believe. Front haul not fully sure about. 

    Other factors are at play as well. 

  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User

    What is the brand and model# of the device that supposedly supports 320Mhz? 

    What version of driver is it using as well? 

     

    Does this happen with the RBS turned OFF and just connecting to the RBR alone? 

  • So there are two Samsung galaxy s25 us unlocked variants. A pc with an Intel killed be1750x using 23.150.0 I believe is the driver. It's whatever Intel has on their site. No further driver available on Intel driver support assistant. Different pc with I to be200ngw same driver. The killer one doesn't change 320 or not if I use the killer performance suite. But the killer software not just rhe driver. Which is the Intel wireless driver anyway janks stuff up so I don't use it. It doesn't change off 269 if there are no satellites or satellites either. I have factory reset this system also to see if it helped. And mlo is turned on for backhaul and it showing as 5 P 5gj for backhaul connection for the one rbs on wireless. The other is wired.