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sg678
Tutor
May 08, 2019

Does Ethernet backhaul free up the upper 5Ghz channels as they interfere with my old cordless phone

I have a RBK22 from costco. I installed/configured using the default wireless 5Ghz backhaul as an AP. Its working good but I am lot of  interference/static when using my 10 year old cordless phone wh...
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SeaMonkey80
Apprentice
May 08, 2019
sg678 wrote:

 

Does it mean if I use a hard wired backhaul, will it free  up the upper 5Ghz frequencies  so that I will not have the interference with my cordless phone.

No.  I believe the Orbi is configured so that the wireless backhaul remains on even if you are connected via ethernet backhaul.  Must be a backup for the system.  It might be worthwhile to invest in a new cordless phone.  The newer ones run on higher frequency (6Ghz?) so you are unlikely to get interference in this 2.4GHz/5GHz WiFi flooded world.