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Several Bugs found in installing a Orbi 970 system
I just installed an Orbi 970 system, router and 2 satellites. I am on FW version 9.12.3.3. They went in place where a comparable Orbi 960 router and 2 satellites were. I set everything up by takin...
BE series will not have a separate 6Ghz network. 960 series was a one off to help ensure 6Ghz devices would connect back then. It's all automatic now. Not sure if NG will gives us 6Ghz channel selection.
Maybe they reason the range is so short on 6GHz compared to 5GHz and 2.4GHz there's little chance of congestion from competing networks.
I wonder if it ever changes off of 69...
Something you can test, turn on your 960 series. Set it to a different SSID name. Change the channel to same as what the 970 is using. I'd set power to med or low on the 960. Put the 960 is same room or near the 970, 10 feet or more. Check the 970 to see what it's using. Might need a reboot of the 970 to see if it changes the channel to something different to avoid using same channel as the 960.
Yeah maybe, for the disruption not that interested lol.
Plus, it might not be that easy - I have been reading about how channels are managed with WiFi 6E.
With my dumbed-down understanding, it appears (I could be wrong), that In Wi-Fi 6E, a process called fast passive scanning is being used to focus on a reduced set of channels called preferred scanning channels (PSC). This is because on the 6E bandwidth, there would be so much to scan with larger bandwidth etc., it might take multi-seconds to find a channel.
PSCs are a set of 15 20-MHz channels that are spaced every 80 MHz. So the Orbi router will set its primary channel, in this case 69, so that it can be easily discovered by a device, and devices will use passive scanning to find it a lot quicker.
That said, I am thinking it might take something significant to cause the Orbi to switch off 69 - especially in today's world where there are very few devices, if any, in a house that uses 6E and is pumping a lot of data so that congestion results. Also, with the short range of 6E, maybe congestion really plays a small part in switching the channel?
Well possible.
Maybe putting on the RBS as well from the 960 could force the 970 to change...If interference levels get too high...