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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...
Thunderstory wrote:
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...
Thank you for that clarification.
I thought that these "Ideas" were essentially bogus and ill-informed.
Back in the real world ....
It is surprising that people have 5 GHz issues, given the limited range of this band.
Perhaps the "Idea" should be to ask Netgear to come up with ways to allow people to avoid interference and make best use of 5 GHz wifi.
I couldn't agree more. I was 'surprised' to find out only the lower 5Ghz channels are used. Higher channels should be opened since most 5Ghz routers in my neighborhood are in the lower channels. Especially where backhaul is concerned, this gives a lot of interference.
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