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RS700 2.4ghz for 20hz channel width only?
I’m not seeing the option any where to do that? I don’t want it in 20hz/40hz mixed and just want 20hz for 2.4ghz band.
In the wireless settings, select speed up to 0.7 Gbps (for RS700 router) in the 2.4 Ghz band. This will lock the 2.4 Ghz band to 20 Mhz bandwidth. Not enabling the 20/40 Mhz coexistence with the maximum 1.4 Gbps speed in the 2.4 Ghz band will lock it to 40 mhz bandwidth.
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coolwifi,
No freaking way! I cannot thank you enough and made the change to 0.7 Gbps forcing 20hz channel width.
Glad, you found it!
You can reduce the 2.4 Ghz speed to set it to 20 Mhz bandwidth only.
Instructions on how to do this would be helpful. Everything I read about this WiFi setting (generically, not just in reference to Netgear) is that not enabling this setting means that the 2.4G WiFi remains fixed at 40Mhz bandwidth.
In the wireless settings, select speed up to 0.7 Gbps (for RS700 router) in the 2.4 Ghz band. This will lock the 2.4 Ghz band to 20 Mhz bandwidth. Not enabling the 20/40 Mhz coexistence with the maximum 1.4 Gbps speed in the 2.4 Ghz band will lock it to 40 mhz bandwidth.
Thank you both! Kinda weird you can’t exclusively set channel width to 20hz only. Other routers allow that.
You can reduce the 2.4 Ghz speed to set it to 20 Mhz bandwidth only.
Unless you're in the country without any other signals, setting your width to 40Hz only hurts you and your neighbors. Because it'll be wider, more networks can cause interference. Plus, because it has to wait for other networks to finish broadcasting or to start broadcasting, it can cause increased latency. And again, not just for you but for your neighbors in the area. So, unless you're in the rare instance of country living, I'd leave coexistence on.
Page 71 of the user manual?
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RS700S/RS700_UM_EN.pdf
