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EAX80 - Cannot Access Settings
Man oh man, I have so many issues with my EAX80 / AX6000 Nighthawk Mesh Extender: 1. http://mywifiext.local/ loads, but clicking on the button "New Extender Setup" does nothing on Firefox, Chrome, o...
After changing the wireless channel on your main router (either manually or automatically after receiving a DFS event), it might a while for the repeater to follow suit (in the order of ~3-5 minutes). But yes, you definitely can change your wireless settings. Only if you do change ESSID/ PSK, you will have to reconfigure your repeater as well. In practice this means resetting the repeater.
Personally I can achieve 1000BASE-T linespeed over the EAX80 (the limit of its ethernet ports). In case of problems in the 5 GHz band, it might help to configure a non-DFS channel (ch36-ch48) for testing.
Why would the channel impact a speed restriction? Are you saying that is the case?
There are two 5GHz bands coming from my router, on channels 36 and 149.