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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 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?
FURRYe38
Jan 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.
- coolwifiJan 29, 2026Luminary
I had the RAXE500 router an year back and it indicated when DFS radar interference was detected when I was primary channel 40 with 160 MHz bandwidth and it kicked off devices from the internet too when dropping bandwidth to 80 Mhz. But the RS500 router doesn't seem to have any internet disconnection when the drop in bandwidth happens.