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brainTrain
Oct 21, 2020Aspirant
nighhawk router is changing channels on its own even though I do not have smart connect enabled
I've had this router for a number of years now and about a month ago I started having a bunch of issues with connecting to it so I reset it to factory defaults and things have been working pretty wel...
- Oct 21, 2020
Basically, yes.
microchip8
Oct 21, 2020Master
DFS channels can be auto-changed by the router's firmware if there's a radar detected
- brainTrainOct 21, 2020Aspirant
thanks for the quick response microchip8! I'm not exactly sure what that means at a high level, does that mean that there's a radar running somewhere by my apartment and the router chooses to change wifi channels to not conflict with it?
- microchip8Oct 21, 2020Master
Basically, yes.