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RS700 DFS Events
Is there a way to enable DFS event logging on the RS700? I have all check boxes for logging enabled, and it seems the logging for this $700 router is very ... Simple. I live in a congested area with a...
As mentioned by plemans, manually set your 5GHz channel to a non-DFS one. Channel 149 would be the best one to use since that can work at any range (up to 160 MHz) with no issue. If you have to use channel 36, for the channel width, you can only use up to 80 MHz, which is the same as "up to 2.9 GHz". If you try to go any higher, it'll spill over into DFS channels.
- Thanks, unfortunately 5Ghz ch. 149 is very congested, with 10 neighboring access points within -70 to -90 dBm at just 10ft/3m from my RS700. When I go into the bedrooms that are furthest from it, at only 20-30ft away with one interior wood-framed/drywall wall (it's only a barely 800sqft house), the signal of 2 neighboring access points on that same channel rise to -45 to -50dBm, when my RS700 is showing -50 to -55dBm. My speeds drop to an extremely sluggish rx/tx speeds with about 80% packet retries due to to the interference. It's been a very difficult problem to solve. Sometimes their channels will change and either completely or partially cover the channel I've selected, so it becomes this never-ending game of tweaking the router with channel changes to avoid interference.