R7500 stuck at network mode b/g on 2.4Ghz band

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Using Wifi Explorer on the Mac I can see that my Netgear R7500 is using network Mode b/g on the 2.4Ghz band and is thus limited to a Max rate of 54Mbps - even though the Mode setting in the router configs lists b/g/n - as a result I'm seeing poor wifi performance on that channel. Pretty sure it wasn't always like this. Amy ideas what might be forcing the lower speed ?

Ian

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Is WMM enabled?

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I beleive anything other than WPA2 will limit the rate.

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Should have said, it's using WPA2

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Is WMM enabled?

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Disabled on both bands

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And voila - after enabling WMM I now see Mode a/c available and speed back up to 289 Mbps max Rate. Thanks - would never have thought of looking there !

[Retired_Member]

you might enable them seeing how it's part of the WIFI 802.11n standard  

 Edit    I see you did. glad it worked