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