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My system is working great. My two satelites are both wired (ethernet). When I do a scan of my wireless environment, I see the backhaul wireless channels that are out there and "hidden". They are very strong signals.
Since I am wired, is there a method of turning off the hidden wireless backhaul channel since I am not using it? I ask because it would make sense this would increase the life of Orbi as well as probably "clean up" the radio spectrum.
If there is a method of doing this, would love to know. Also may be a good firmware option in future versions.
My system is working great. My two satelites are both wired (ethernet). When I do a scan of my wireless environment, I see the backhaul wireless channels that are out there and "hidden". They are very strong signals.
Since I am wired, is there a method of turning off the hidden wireless backhaul channel since I am not using it? I ask because it would make sense this would increase the life of Orbi as well as probably "clean up" the radio spectrum.
If there is a method of doing this, would love to know. Also may be a good firmware option in future versions.
I think 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.
If you don't want this backup then you can use the following steps to switch off the higher band hidden channel used for backhaul:
Take a backup of your configuration to use it just in case
Switch off the 5Ghz backhaul hidden channel as follows:
config set endis_wla_2nd_radio=0
config get wl5g_BACKHAUL_AP --> Get the printout from this command (should be ath2)
ifconfig ath2 down --> Or replace the ath2 with the output of the command from point 2
You can return it back later as follows:
Switch on the 5Ghz backhaul hidden channel as follows:
config setendis_wla_2nd_radio=1
config setwl5g_BACKHAUL_AP=ath2 (or to whatever the printout above initially was)
reboot --> then wait for the router to reboot
ifconfigath2 up --> Or replace the ath2 wth whatever the printout above initially was
I tested the above procedure and it worked fine for me 🙂
My system is working great. My two satelites are both wired (ethernet). When I do a scan of my wireless environment, I see the backhaul wireless channels that are out there and "hidden". They are very strong signals.
Since I am wired, is there a method of turning off the hidden wireless backhaul channel since I am not using it? I ask because it would make sense this would increase the life of Orbi as well as probably "clean up" the radio spectrum.
If there is a method of doing this, would love to know. Also may be a good firmware option in future versions.
I think 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.
If you don't want this backup then you can use the following steps to switch off the higher band hidden channel used for backhaul:
Take a backup of your configuration to use it just in case
Switch off the 5Ghz backhaul hidden channel as follows:
config set endis_wla_2nd_radio=0
config get wl5g_BACKHAUL_AP --> Get the printout from this command (should be ath2)
ifconfig ath2 down --> Or replace the ath2 with the output of the command from point 2
You can return it back later as follows:
Switch on the 5Ghz backhaul hidden channel as follows:
config setendis_wla_2nd_radio=1
config setwl5g_BACKHAUL_AP=ath2 (or to whatever the printout above initially was)
reboot --> then wait for the router to reboot
ifconfigath2 up --> Or replace the ath2 wth whatever the printout above initially was
I tested the above procedure and it worked fine for me 🙂
