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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 ...
coolwifi
Jan 29, 2026Luminary
I do notice a few 5 ghz neighboring wifi networks staying in the 160 Mhz bandwidth using the same primary channel, so the dropping bandwidth issue seems to be only with my Netgear. The other wifi neighboring networks use TP link router as per the wifi analyzer.
FURRYe38
Jan 29, 2026Guru - Experienced User
Can to take a debug log capture from the RS router and put up on a cloud share? PM me the link.
Let the log run for 5 minutes then save off.
- coolwifiJan 29, 2026Luminary
I could do that. But the issue is I don't know when exactly when the drop in bandwidth happens. Do you want me to save the debug log at a random time for 5 mins?
- FURRYe38Jan 29, 2026Guru - Experienced User
No just capture current configuration. I'll pass this to NG for review.
Next time you do notice that it's gone to 80Mhz, do another capture and post up.
- coolwifiJan 29, 2026Luminary
Sure, thanks. I will get the log post boot up when the bandwidth is at 160 Mhz and will get another log post the drop.