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SimonGT007
Apr 13, 2018Guide
Status:
New Idea
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...
WireChiefUSMC86
Jul 04, 2021Novice
Minor addition note. The Bay Area California where teh Internet was rather born (I supported technology back in 1983 when IBM AT and XT first came out, prior to Ethernet (ThinNet with a coaxial cable and resister at the end) plus Novell networks (Microaoft was Windows for Workgroup 3.10 and 3.11 Windows for Workgroups). OF course that was shortly after they invented fire and the wheel. NOw in the Bay Area I worked for Standfor University for over a decade, where Cisco was born in Polya Hall. Teh first internet LMHost file was manually updated by a admin in Stanford Linear Accelerator across the campus, where he updated manually the text file for new domains globally twice a day.
In Silicon Valley, Sonic provides 1 Gigabit speeds. Using your Orbi device I just tested my house getting 942 Mbps routinely at night due to fiber of Internet Service Provider called Sonic and that is getting more an more common. Of course actively during the day my 5GHz drops as neighbors stream and video on teh same channels I use for tech support of 13 states remote office support, and my 5GHz channels are limiting, however that they can at 1215am just after midnight get those high speeds simply neighbors are asleep.
I strongly suspect, since your application and many third party speed tests confirm rates of 942+ Mbps around midnight that teh technology of the ORbi 5GHZ is willing and technically can do, but during the day competition over a few 5GHz channels kills performance, that "very simply" selecting a network teh neighbors are not using would allow that fast potential I see at night. Your Orbi tool infact proves and confirms the speeds.
Given your tool as proof, and given that 942Gbps is consistent when niebors sleep on fiber networks common in teh bay area (NETGEAR is in Bay Area and has heard of Sonic ISP fiber offering), please make available more channels to select from for 5GHz networks so I can during the day support my end users with a channel my neighbors don't use, and confirmed using your ORbi network tools. Woudl be optimal, would be easy to open more channels, and easy to select them using your tool to confirm what networks the neighbors are using. Thank you for your consideration, your product would be noticeably "FASTER" by simply allowing more channels. Thank you!