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RS500 - Auto 5 ghz channel setting picks up DFS channel?
My neighborhood is pretty crowded with 5 Ghz channels. The auto 5 Ghz channel selection setting picks up channel 100 which is a DFS channel. This channel also has lower transmit power than the non DF...
The RS500 allows the user to manually select the WiFi channels. If "Auto" does not seem to work appropriately, perhaps manually selecting the channels is better choice?
p.s. Customers make suggestions to Netgear all the time. There is even a Community Forum devoted to this topic:
Submit Ideas for Home Products | NETGEAR Communities
There have been occasions when Netgear has acted on suggestions. (Alas, even hundreds of "likes" for some topics have not produced results.)
Yes, I can change the channels manually. But most people might leave it on auto and this could cause issues. Thanks for linking the ideas page.