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Why can't I see 6ghz on my Orbi 970
Why can't I see the 6ghz on my Orbi 970? It claims it has it but I don't see it anywhere in my orbilogin.
thats normal. there isn't anything to change with the 6ghz on the orbi's. Its all managed by the orbi.
Its like that on my RBE973 and REB773
But it claimed it has 6ghz when I bought it, shouldn't it be there tho?
Or is something else is at play?
Or is something else is at play?
It has 6ghz. There is just nothing the users can adjust. So there isn't anything to display.
You can look at the advanced tab and the wireless settings box to see it broadcast on the 6ghz.
You can also download a scanner app. I use wifi analyzer for android to see 6ghz.
- If you use the Orbi router IP address assigned by your network, and have the Default User ID and Password (I don’t remember them now, and you will be prompted to change them at LogIn, but the Netgear on-line User Manual for the WIFI 7 router will have information on using the Web GUI) log into the Orbi router Web GUI and you will find several different screens that show you the WiFi frequencies (2.4/5/6 GHz bands) and the channels being used along with much more useful router information.
With the original 2.4/5Ghz WiFi bands, the router allows you to select (on/off) if you want to use 1 or the other (or both bands) for WIFI connections, but since WIFI 7 (and also WIFI 6E) must use 6GHz, I assume Netgear doesn’t want a user to turn off or adjust power on 6GHz band as that can dramatically impact “WIFI 7” speeds and performance of these new routers.
Also remember, the FCC re-allocated much of our 6GHz WIFI bandwidth and has/will reclaim bandwidth from primarily governmental agencies. There are still agencies using some 6GHz bandwidth, so the FCC currently doesn’t allow any changes (e.g. power level, etc) related to 6GHz WIFI, thus, the vendors (like NG) are highly restricted as to how 6GHz bandwidth can be used.
Roc1 wrote:
since WIFI 7 (and also WIFI 6E) must use 6GHz,Just a tiny clarification. WiFi7 uses more capable features in all three WiFi frequency bands (2.4G, 5G, 6G) and WiFi systems can be WiFi7 Certified without supporting the 6G frequency band. See only of the statements toward the bottom of:
There are rumors that Netgear is testing an "Entry Level" WiFi7 product which supports only 2.4G and 5G frequencies.
FYI, NG is only supporting MLO and 7 specs on 5 and 6Ghz only.
