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dbl9000
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Sep 04, 2020
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Stop changing 5ghz channels

I live in a pretty wifi congested building.  I used WifiInfo to find a 5ghz channel without any traffic.  So I set my Nighthawk c7000 5 ghz channel to be 128.  The router will start on 128 but if I c...
  • James721's avatar
    Sep 04, 2020

     The channels you are chossing are DFS channels. DFS channels are subject to scan for radar if radar is detected they must vacate the channel and switch to another. To avoid this only pic channels 36-48 and 149-161.