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njweb
Jan 19, 2025Luminary
Orbi 770 - Use MLO backhaul? Use 5Ghz DFS or leave at 40? And Wifi 7 connection issue questions.
I recently purchased the RBE773 (Orbi 770 3-pack system) - got a nice deal 1) 5 GHz - Use channel 40 (default) or one of the 5GHz DFS channels? Is there a benefit to changing the 5GHz channel fr...
njweb
Jan 26, 2025Luminary
Just played around with it today and my Archer TBE6500UH Wifi 7 USB adapter is still only connecting to the Orbi 770's 5 GHz network.
Perhaps this is expected behavior, but would have expected it to connect to the 6GHz band?
FURRYe38
Jan 26, 2025Guru - Experienced User
I bought a Archer BE9500 PCI adapter last year to see if it would work on MLO. Would not. Turned out TP-Link didn't have MLO implemented. They use MicroTek I believe. I returned it. I watched the threads over there but wasn't sure if they got it implemented. There is ariticles about that Mfr being under scrutiny now.
Since then I bought a Intel BE200 PCI card and it fully supports MLO on Win11 24H2.
You might try NGs USB Adatpers and see or find you a Intel based USB MLO adapter.
njweb wrote:
Just played around with it today and my Archer TBE6500UH Wifi 7 USB adapter is still only connecting to the Orbi 770's 5 GHz network.
Perhaps this is expected behavior, but would have expected it to connect to the 6GHz band?
- njwebJan 26, 2025Luminary
Thanks for the feedback Furry! Have to run, but will post more later...
In the meantime, I did post some tests and thoughts above (not in response to your post, which I did not get a chance to reply to.
- FURRYe38Jan 27, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Keep us posted. đ
- njwebJan 28, 2025Luminary
My TP-Link BE6500 Archer TBE6500UH does NOT show 802.11be as being supported:
I ran this in cmd prompt C:\Windows\System32>netsh wlan show driver
"Radio types supported : 802.11b 802.11g 802.11n 802.11ac 802.11ax 802.11a"
I have Windows 11 24H2 and I am using the official Wifi driver, so no clue why 802.11be is not showing as supported.
Odd...