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Broadcasting hidden networks on 5 ghz and 6 ghz
Was any answer ever given on this? I have the same thing on my rs500
I have set the 5 Ghz channel to 44 and maximum speed up to 5.8 Gbps, but it keeps falling to the 80 MHz bandwidth after sometime and doesn't seem to revert back to the 160 MHz bandwidth. Shouldn't the router fall back to 160 MHz bandwidth if any detected interference in the DFS spectrum is no longer there?
Is there any way to disable the hidden SSID's broadcasted in the 5 and 6 Ghz bands in the router which is supposed to be part of mesh backhaul as per the debug page? They add to some channel utilization in both the bands which doesn't serve any purpose in a non mesh router.
Where are you seeing this hidden SSID broadcast?
MESH isn't supported on RS Routers.
Thank you. I am seeing the hidden SSID's as the mac ID's in the Wifiman and Wifianalyzer apps. There's a backhaul mesh SSID in the debug page under the onboarding settings. See screenshot below.