Please provide more 5GHZ wifi channel options - restricting to channels 36-48 is too limiting

One further comment - then I'll shut up. I don't read through these comments and see people asking for Netgear to do something illegal or ill-informed.

Well... one guy seems to be asking for them to do that by opening up channels 50 - 70. :-) But I don't think the other commentors here are asking for that.

I read this idea/ask to be more of a feature request to add DFS technology to free up the upper channels that Netgear has reserved for the 5GHz backhaul. Or at least find a way to free up the upper, unrestricted channnels for us to use. Again, there are many products out there that allow users to select the upper 5GHz channels. There are also products that enable DFS technology that allow users to select a DFS "channel" option. Netgear has this technology in some of their less expensive Nighthawk routers, so it is dissapointing to see they did not include it in their more expensive mesh systems.

It seems to me that if you are going to reserve the entire upper range for the 5GHz backhaul, you could find some way to give customers a DFS option for their own fronthaul use. Or how about using DFS Sensing technology to put the backhaul in DFS/TPC range? Of course, that may insert some instability in the backhaul link.

At the very least, how about letting us choose how to use the upper channels when we have a wired backhaul to the main router? I assume the 5GHz channels are still being used as some sort of wifi "backup" for the backhaul even when we have a wired backhaul in place? It would be nice to let us choose whether or not we use that 5GHz range as a backhaul "backup" or as regular wifi network.

Thanks!