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RS700 - 5GHz Wifi - Channel Auto 40
Hello,
I have noticed my wifi 6 (802.11) devices are getting a slower connection around 180mbps, it used to be around 350-450 mbps when performing a speed test.
Upon looking into router configuration, I can confirm the wifi 5GHz is set to Channel: Auto and Mode: up to 5.8 Gbps. However if I click on Advanced Home and scroll down to see the wireless configuration, I do see channel Auto (40) and mode up to 0.7 Gbps.
If I change the channel manually to higher upwards of 128, I do get better speeds on wifi 6 devices.
Any reason why 5GHz auto channel is default to channel 40? How do I correct this manually without choosing a specific channel?
Router Model: Nighthawk RS700
| Firmware Version | V1.0.10.8_2.0.109 |
Thanks
CT
Possible AUTO setting for 5Ghz and the FW system maybe seeing interferences on other channels and picking a lessor noisy channel. Something that the FW systems handles.
I use channel 40 all the time here. However mostly use 48 on my RS700 as I have other noisy channels near by.
You don't have to use AUTO setting. Pick something that works best for your environment. Manual works well. Can try the other channels. Pick something that works best for you.
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Possible AUTO setting for 5Ghz and the FW system maybe seeing interferences on other channels and picking a lessor noisy channel. Something that the FW systems handles.
I use channel 40 all the time here. However mostly use 48 on my RS700 as I have other noisy channels near by.
You don't have to use AUTO setting. Pick something that works best for your environment. Manual works well. Can try the other channels. Pick something that works best for you.
Don't rely on the auto channel selection in the 5 Ghz band, choose the least used channel 36-48 or 149-161 depending your neighboring 5 ghz wifi channels. Channel 44 provides the best performance in my RS500 router. Higher DFS channels might be clean but you might get kicked out of those channels if any radar interference is detected,
I have had the same issue with my RS700S after the firmware upgrade my 5ghz band went from connecting at 1.4 gig wireless to my media bridge but after the update the speed dropped to 400 meg, I went in to wireless and changed the channel from AUTO to 149 and my speed picked back up to 1.2 gig so the new firmware jacked up the 5ghz being on auto
The auto 5 Ghz channel setting might choose a channel which is not used and it might be a DFS channel with a lower transmit power and hence the speed drop.
I have on channel 161 for 5GHz and has been good for few weeks.
Are you using channel 161 with up to 5.8 Gbps speed? You might have to check whether all of your 5 Ghz devices support the UNII-4 Ghz channels 169-177, if they don't they will connect to the router at a lower speed. The solution for this is to change the speed to 2.8 Gbps which will lower the bandwidth to 80 MHz.
thanks for the info. I will double check. Most of my wifi devices are under couple yrs old and when I tested them all post change I was getting around 350-550 mbps. Will check if they support UNII-4 GHz. I picked 161 channel to avoid interference with my neighbours.
Yea but the bad thing is after the new firmware my 5ghz band was forced to 3 times slower and for the router to loose connection from the cable modem and no it is not the cable modem, the whole router would loose internet but if you look at the router all the WiFi bands are up, but the connection out is down. Nothing has changed in the 6 months I have had this router now after the update this was the first time seeing the rs700s loose internet connection, the only thing that has changed was new netgear firmware update then all this crap started to happen, I was running perfect for 6 months tell the new firmware update, funny how combines say they test this but push out the bad firmware anyway. It all was running perfect before the last update. Netgear has some serious issues if they keep on pushing firmware that will not work on how the router is intended to work. Issues with new firmware
- On the 5ghz band you can not go auto unless you want slow speed
- you have to choose new channel since auto now goes to slowest speed, I did not pay over $600 for 1/2 a router
- Loose internet connection at least once a day and even in the logs it is not recorded why
The router should last more than 6 months with only 40 devices connected to it
I updated the firmware in my RS500 and don't have any issue. May be someone with a RS700 and updated firmware could comment.
The 5 Ghz auto channel selection always picks the least used channel DFS or non DFS channel. It always picks DFS channel 100 in my case which impacts the range since DFS channels have lower transmit power. You should always choose a manual least congested non DFS channel in the 5 Ghz band. This hasn't changed with the latest firmware update.
Try to restart your modem first and then the router. Did you check the web interface of your modem to see if there's any signal disconnection or weak signal issues?
The thing is if looking by the lights the router WiFi is all white means it is good the only light that is orange it the internet light which means no connection, but if you look at the wireless lights on the router my 2.5,5 and 6ghz are all up and white, but my cable modem is 3 years old so Xfinity is coming out to put in newer cable modem Saturday so we see, just in case I have 2 netgear rs700s routers, one being used only 6 months old and 1 still in the box never taken out and is my backup so I guess I will see if this helps on Saturday or not
This sounds like an issue with the modem or ISP issue. Hopefully you will find out soon.
I can not check the cable modem but I can check my router and now time to replace and since cable modem if free to get upgrade I will do that first and see if it is more stable
Cable modem is ok and replaced but this all did not start until netgear put out new firmware, if I have to replace my rs700s with the extra I have in the box will be last resort and it is a pain hooking the 4 media bridges and all the WiFi stuff but I will put in the ssid the same and password the same so most will hookup easy but not all do but if I do have to use last resort I have it, I get like a ack-rts in the logs on the router now when it goes down, remember this did not happen at all before the firmware update, i am not to smart on the ack-rts i have no idea what that does
I will turn off the updated on the new router if i go that way, cause it was perfect before new firmware