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

FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
May 09, 2019
You can give that a try. Just know it's not offically supported so if something happens, NG won't support this configuration. "The wireless backhaul is kept ON as a standby link in case your wired backhaul gets broken, so you will have good redundancy in your system by keeping the wireless backhaul on."

Try if you like and let us know if it works for you. :smileywink:
ekhalil
Master
May 10, 2019
sg678 wrote:

Based on the answers so far, it seems that the answer is no.

I see the following post which has steps to disable. Does it mean that this post is invalid.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Ethernet-Backhaul-Best-Practices/m-p/1688701#M49638

Please note that disabling Daisy Chain (in the advanced wireless settings) frees up the upper 5Ghz backhaul channels orginated from the satellites, so you will then only have one backhaul network originated from the router on the upper 5GHz band.

To disable the router's backhaul network you need to follow the instructions in the link

You can also choose to just reduce the transmission power of the backhaul channel by following instruction in this link.
- sg678
  Tutor
  May 12, 2019
  ekhalil I can confirm that the solution did not work in my case of RBK22. I followed all the steps. In my case the interface for the 5Ghz bachaul is ath11. I turned off the radio and brought down teh interface. I commited the changes ot the kernel. Observed that the interface comes back up by itself after a minute or 2 and I see that teh 5Ghz fronthaul SSID starts to use the higher band 5Ghz frequncy channel ( 157 in my case ).
  
  root@RBR20:~# config show |grep BACK
  config show |grep BACK
  wl2g_BACKHAUL_AP=ath01
  wl5g_BACKHAUL_AP=ath11
  root@RBR20:~# ifocnfig
  ifocnfig
  -ash: ifocnfig: not found
  root@RBR20:~# ifconfig ath11
  ifconfig ath11
  ath11 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7E:D2:94:46:54:D1
  inet6 addr: fe80::7cd2:94ff:fe46:54d1/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
  
  root@RBR20:~# ifconfig ath11 down
  ifconfig ath11 down
  root@RBR20:~# ifconfig ath11
  ifconfig ath11
  ath11 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7E:D2:94:46:54:D1
  BROADCAST ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
  
  root@RBR20:~# ifconfig ath11
  ifconfig ath11
  ath11 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7E:D2:94:46:54:D1
  inet6 addr: fe80::7cd2:94ff:fe46:54d1/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
  
  root@RBR20:~# config show |grep BACK
  config show |grep BACK
  wl2g_BACKHAUL_AP=ath01
  wl5g_BACKHAUL_AP=ath11
  root@RBR20:~# config show |grep endis_wla_2nd_radio
  config show |grep endis_wla_2nd_radio
  endis_wla_2nd_radio=0
  root@RBR20:~# config show |grep radio
  config show |grep radio
  wl_radio=1
  endis_wla_radio=1
  endis_wla_2nd_radio=0
  wla_2nd_radio=1
  endis_wl_radio=1
  root@RBR20:~#
  
  See my SSID LaughingBuddha is showing up as using 157

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