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coolwifi
Jan 21, 2026Luminary
RS500 router keeps falling back to 80 Mhz bandwidth from 160 Mhz
I have set up my RS500 router with channel 44 and up to 5.8 Gbps speed in the 5 Ghz band. The router stays on 160 MHz bandwidth for a day or two before falling back to the 80 MHz bandwidth and never ...
plemans
Jan 21, 2026Guru - Experienced User
Have you tried channels 149? There's a 160hz wide channel from 149-177
coolwifi
Jan 21, 2026Luminary
Yes I did try the channels 149-161, but some of my devices don't support the UNI-4 channels with the 160 Mhz bandwidth, so they get stuck in 20 Mhz bandwidth speed.