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  • TheEther's avatar
    TheEther
    Guru
    Oct 30, 2015

    AFAIK, that type of exclusion is not possible. Older routers used to have N-only modes, but I think router vendors have wisened up and withdrawn support for it. The Wi-Fi standards built in mandatory backwards compatibility into 802.11ac, so there is no concept of an AC-only mode.

  • vkdelta's avatar
    vkdelta
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Oct 30, 2015

    mastergenera1

     

    Hi,

     

    thanks for posting this question, 2.4G radio supports 256-QAM and thats why it has those rates in it. today's Sw does not support it for sure and I am not sure if there is an API on the radio interface which can do it (I am looking for it)

     

    any reason you want to turn it off?

  • mastergenera1's avatar
    mastergenera1
    Aspirant
    Oct 30, 2015
    I mainly would want to do it to improve my 5Ghz signal if possible, I own no legacy devices(N/AC only) and have found that doing so with another man got me my full paid for speed of 300mbps over AC wifi(with the current settings, 2.4Ggz gets me ~150mbps, and 5Ghz gives me 6mbps
  • mastergenera1's avatar
    mastergenera1
    Aspirant
    Oct 30, 2015

    also i wanted to say that i live in an apt complex so any way i can enhance the ability of the radios with settings. id like to have as many options as possible, my old ISP assigned mdm was a technicolor 8715D, and it had the functionality i speak of, but just failed 2x in 3 months, wasnt gonna have it and wanted my own unit. so i bought quality.

    • vkdelta's avatar
      vkdelta
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Oct 30, 2015

      do you want to increase the power?

      easy way to reduce from HT80 to H20 which will slightly boost up power at the expense of bandwidth.