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RS500 MLO Support and 320MHZ?
HI
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For my new rs500, I cannot get 320. Best I can do for 6g is to set it to up to 2.9gbps and it will get to 160. No other combo of channels/speeds works to get 320. My ASUS router has no problem doing 320 for 6ghz. How can I get this rs500 to work at 320?
Also, there seems to be no support for MLO...one of the biggest benefits of wifi7. Again, my ASUS router does that without issue. So far very disappointed in this Nighthawk.
Hoping someone can help...at least the 320, which it claims it has.
I can set my RS500 to 5.8 Gbps which is 320 mhz bandwidth. MLO is not yet available in Netgear wifi 7 routers. Do you have any client device supporting 320 mhz bandwidth?
Yes, my phone. On my asus router, the wifi analyzer shows the 320mhz. But on the rs500, it only shows up to the 160 as I stated. What channel are you on...any other settings you can share somewhere else in the system? If I put it to the 5.8, it drops to 20mhz every single time. I have tried with the 20/40 selection both off and on. No difference. Another person posted the same issue, only getting 20mhz when set to 5.8. Any help you can offer is appreciated.
This is weird. I am on channel 69 auto selected by the router. But I don't have any wifi 7 devices to test the max bandwidth. Wifiman app shows the 6 Ghz channel in 320 Mhz bandwidth in my wifi 6E phone.
The RS series isn't supportive of MLO yet. NG seems to be still be working on it. No information on when MLO will be released. WIll have to keep an eye on it.
Thanks, did you see my post of the wifi scan pics? So weird that one app shows 20mhz, while the others show 320.
Maybe app differences in what they are able to report.
