WiFi radio 160MHz 5G band - stable channel selection (Nighthawk RS200)

Have you tried other channels? How about 149 or 165? 

It'll let you change to the 80hz band. When you go into your settings, your "**** up to speed" is what sets the bandwidth. Set it down a notch from 4800mbps to 2400mbps. That'll narrow the bandwidth. 

If you set your 5GHz channel to 36 at 160MHz, it'll actually use channels 36-64 (28 channels). This means that it's spilling over into the DFS channels (52-64), which is why you will keep on getting kicked to another channel.

If you set your 5GHz to channel 36 at 80MHz, it'll use channels 36-50 (14 channels), so you won't end up on a DFS channel and you won't get kicked out. As plemans said, set your "up to X.X Gbps" one notch down to switch from 160MHz to 80MHz.

Another alternative is setting your channel to 149. At 160MHz or 80MHz, you won't spill over to any DFS channels.

Any progress on this? 

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cowswith wrote:

Hi folks, was wondering if there was a good solution to stable channel selection on the 160MHz 5G band.

 

I will set my unit to say channel 36 or 48 or so with excellent down speeds, up to 1800Mb, and get booted to channel 157 where I will land with a very unstable connection. Unstable between the 400-700Mb range if I'm lucky enough to even get a 802.11ax protocol, with likely drop to 50-300Mb 802.11n protocol. I expect its probably proximity to police station with cops running radar booting me out, from what I am aware of the Nighthawk RS200 unit wont let me change to a more narrow 80MHz manually to get a more stable connection.

 

2Gb fiber, Nighthawk WiFi 7 Router RS200 6.5Gbps, Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz, drivers current, proximity 2m from unit

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