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RS700 - No on/off toggle to turn off wifi band
The current firmware 1.0.7.82 for the RS700 does not have a toggle allowing you to turn off a wifi band. On other routers, this feature is usually found in the advanced setting menu but I don't see ...
Something that may not be supported on the RS for now. Will have to see if NG supports that feature later on at some point.
Since the RS700 is a Wi-Fi 7 router, and since Wi-Fi 7 simultaneously uses the 2.4, 5, and 6GHz bands through MLO (Multi-Link Operation), it may be reasonable that individual bands cannot be disabled?
I'm not an expert in this area but I assumed that the existence of the wifi schedule feature, which allows you to turn off the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands by setting up a schedule, implies that neither MLO nor the Wifi 7 standard requires all the bands to be active. It's one of the oddest thing about the missing on/off wifi toggle - the functionality to turn off bands is there in the firmware, you just can't do it permanently or without jumping through hoops to set up a schedule.
Even if MLO needs all three bands to be active, users should have the ability to turn off MLO (and individual wifi bands) when the feature becomes available on the RS700 (it's still under development). I see it as analogous to another new Wifi 7 feature, 320 MHz channel width in the 6 GHz band. The RS700 doesn't require you to use 320 MHz, you can set channel width to 160, 80 or 40 MHz if you want.
We removed the radio on/off function from RS700 due to some implemntation considerations.
We are considering to add it back but it's TBD. Can you share your experiences where you would want to use the function and the scheduled Wi-Fi on/off function cannot satisfy the need? Thanks.