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konnexion
Aspirant
Dec 10, 2015
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R7500 stuck at network mode b/g on 2.4Ghz band

Using Wifi Explorer on the Mac I can see that my Netgear R7500 is using network Mode b/g on the 2.4Ghz band and is thus limited to a Max rate of 54Mbps - even though the Mode setting in the router co...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Dec 10, 2015

    Is WMM enabled?

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Anonymous
Dec 10, 2015

I beleive anything other than WPA2 will limit the rate.

konnexion's avatar
konnexion
Aspirant
Dec 10, 2015

Should have said, it's using WPA2

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Dec 10, 2015

    Is WMM enabled?

    • konnexion's avatar
      konnexion
      Aspirant
      Dec 10, 2015

      Disabled on both bands

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Dec 10, 2015

        you might enable them seeing how it's part of the WIFI 802.11n standard  

         

         Edit    I see you did. glad it worked

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      konnexion
      Aspirant
      Dec 10, 2015

      And voila - after enabling WMM I now see Mode a/c available and speed back up to 289 Mbps max Rate. Thanks - would never have thought of looking there !