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R9000 5 yo router isn't seen my Mac Mini M2 in 5G unless I slow down speed from 1700 to 800
I thought I had a bad Mac at first as it just wouldn't find my 5G network so was stuck on 2.4G. Then I noticed it could see my neighbors 5G. I tried everything; changing channels, renaming the netw...
If your not really using the higher speeds or have lots of devices using it, i'd keep what you have configured so the mini will work. At some point the 9000 will need to be retired and find you something that has 6E or even WiFi 7.
Well, I got the 5GHz working on the Mac Mini this morning. I had noticed that all my devices only support up to 80MHz connection speeds except the Mac Mini. I also saw that my neighbors connections that it could see were 80MHz also. I had looked for a way to turn off the 160 MHz speed on the router but couldn't find it. I also wanted to turn off the 60GHz band (ad) that as far as I know was experimental and no one every supported (correct me if I am wrong). I never could find these setting until today.
They didn't show up even in the Advanced Wireless Tab, but I found them under Administration:Wireless Settings. I unchecked the "Enable 160MHz speed in 5G" and I unchecked the 60 GHz settings too. And that did it.
I suspect there is a problem with the implementation of 160MHz in the R9000 that never showed up as I had no devices until now that supported it. I doubt the 60GHz Wireless had anything to do with it. I now have excellent 570 mbps in the Mac Mini (up from 75 or so) matching my iMac (which is much closer to the router). My Spectrum Internet is 500.
I see three other settings that I have on and left on for FYI:
Enable Beamforming
Enable MU-MIMO
Enable Smart Roaming
Possible that the new M2s don't handle 160Mhz as well or to new of tech that older 160Mhz may be incopatible. You'd have to check a different router that supported 160Mhz to compare and see.
Ya AD didn't take off like some had hoped. I got a AD wireless card but haven't had a chance to test it with my R9000. After doing more reading on it, AD only works in short range with the router so practicallity not really great for long distances or daily use unless you can keep the distance short. Supposed to have great speeds but seems to be limiting factors other wise. Yes, disable it if your not using it.
Maybe later on, you can check out Voxel's FW for the R9000.
Glad you got it working. Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/24231/How-do-I-back-up-the-router-configuration-settings-on-my-Nighthawk-router
Enjoy. 📡
SRC54 wrote:
Well, I got the 5GHz working on the Mac Mini this morning. I had noticed that all my devices only support up to 80MHz connection speeds except the Mac Mini. I also saw that my neighbors connections that it could see were 80MHz also. I had looked for a way to turn off the 160 MHz speed on the router but couldn't find it. I also wanted to turn off the 60GHz band (ad) that as far as I know was experimental and no one every supported (correct me if I am wrong). I never could find these setting until today.
They didn't show up even in the Advanced Wireless Tab, but I found them under Administration:Wireless Settings. I unchecked the "Enable 160MHz speed in 5G" and I unchecked the 60 GHz settings too. And that did it.
I suspect there is a problem with the implementation of 160MHz in the R9000 that never showed up as I had no devices until now that supported it. I doubt the 60GHz Wireless had anything to do with it. I now have excellent 570 mbps in the Mac Mini (up from 75 or so) matching my iMac (which is much closer to the router). My Spectrum Internet is 500.
I see three other settings that I have on and left on for FYI:
Enable Beamforming
Enable MU-MIMO
Enable Smart Roaming