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Nighthawk RAX70 Full Gigabit wired speeds but half Over Wifi
Hi Everyone, I tried to do a search online but I am getting so many different answers of (yes you should get these speeds and no you shouldn't) I just upgraded to gigabit net, and wired to my...
Oh one last thing since you seem to know a lot.
Is there a reason why I can't see the 80mghz channel? When I look i only see the lower channels 40 ect...
and my higher channels I don't see "160" I have "161" is that a difference?
The channel selection depends on your region, as well as the channel width selected in the router.
Netgear doesn't really llist the channel widths, and instead list them based on PHY rate.
Up to 4800 Mbps = 160MHz channel width
Up to 2400 Mbps = 80MHz channel width
Up to 1200 Mbps = 40MHz channel width
Up to 600Mbps = 20MHz channel width
The wider the channel width, the fewer channel options there will be since the channel width needs contigious spectrum (enough 20MHz channels in a row that can encompass the channel width selected. Since there are gaps in the 5GHz band due to FCC restrictions (different countries will have theirown set of arbitrary restrictions), the selection for 160MHz is quite limited.
The image below shows the channels after the arbitrary FCC restrictions in the US.
You the best! perfectly makes sense now! I as confused why I was't able to slect my range.
You help so much! tottaly feel better about my choice for the rax70 now. I thought it was the router, (not that I would expect to get full wifi speeds) but I thought I might get bettter than 400-500 down. Tottaly understand now! Thanks again!
Razor512 wrote:The channel selection depends on your region, as well as the channel width selected in the router.
Netgear doesn't really llist the channel widths, and instead list them based on PHY rate.
Up to 4800 Mbps = 160MHz channel widthUp to 2400 Mbps = 80MHz channel width
Up to 1200 Mbps = 40MHz channel width
Up to 600Mbps = 20MHz channel width
The wider the channel width, the fewer channel options there will be since the channel width needs contigious spectrum (enough 20MHz channels in a row that can encompass the channel width selected. Since there are gaps in the 5GHz band due to FCC restrictions (different countries will have theirown set of arbitrary restrictions), the selection for 160MHz is quite limited.
The image below shows the channels after the arbitrary FCC restrictions in the US.