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Please provide more 5GHZ wifi channel options - restricting to channels 36-48 is too limiting
I live in London in the UK and nearly every house nearby has wifi and growth of 5GHZ routers is growing rapidly - the WiFI explorer application on my Mac is picking up at least 13 wifi signals on cha...
The laws in Europe, the US, Canada, Japan and pretty much everywhere else specify that you must never allow manual selection of channels above 48. Everything from 50 and up is DFS/TPC, meaning that WiFi routers are allowed to borrow them via auto selection but must let go of them the split second any interference is detected. There can be no user control.
This thread somehow makes it sound like Netgear could just go ahead and ignore these regulations and open up the whole range from 50 to 100+ for users to pick from manually. "Break the law or I will never buy anything from you again!!!" Ooookay...