C7000 modem 802.11 type exclusion?

[mastergenera1]

hi i was wondering if there is any way to tighten the C7000s wifi settings to only broadcast N on the 2.4 and only broadcast AC on the 5Ghz? thanks

[vkdelta · Accepted solution]

please see page 67

http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/C7000/C7000_Comcast_UM_27apr15.pdf

please change 2.4G  289 Mbps

for 5GHz, you can 600 Mbps or even lower.

[TheEther]

AFAIK, that type of exclusion is not possible. Older routers used to have N-only modes, but I think router vendors have wisened up and withdrawn support for it. The Wi-Fi standards built in mandatory backwards compatibility into 802.11ac, so there is no concept of an AC-only mode.

[vkdelta]

@mastergenera1

Hi,

thanks for posting this question, 2.4G radio supports 256-QAM and thats why it has those rates in it. today's Sw does not support it for sure and I am not sure if there is an API on the radio interface which can do it (I am looking for it)

any reason you want to turn it off?

[mastergenera1]

I mainly would want to do it to improve my 5Ghz signal if possible, I own no legacy devices(N/AC only) and have found that doing so with another man got me my full paid for speed of 300mbps over AC wifi(with the current settings, 2.4Ggz gets me ~150mbps, and 5Ghz gives me 6mbps

[mastergenera1]

mdm not man lol

[mastergenera1]

also i wanted to say that i live in an apt complex so any way i can enhance the ability of the radios with settings. id like to have as many options as possible, my old ISP assigned mdm was a technicolor 8715D, and it had the functionality i speak of, but just failed 2x in 3 months, wasnt gonna have it and wanted my own unit. so i bought quality.

[vkdelta]

do you want to increase the power?

easy way to reduce from HT80 to H20 which will slightly boost up power at the expense of bandwidth.

[mastergenera1]

So which menu is that under?

[vkdelta · Accepted solution]

please see page 67

http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/C7000/C7000_Comcast_UM_27apr15.pdf

please change 2.4G  289 Mbps

for 5GHz, you can 600 Mbps or even lower.

[mastergenera1]

well that seemed to work, i can now get 252 mbps down, which is acceptable considering im using a beta wifi driver for my wifi card for win10, and had to tweak a couple thing on it to get that as well, im still hoping for a firmware update with better control of the radios though. this is the first non D2 momdem if logged into with no control over banfwidth output (20/40/80Mhz output), and being able to control the classes of wifi broadcasted by the wifi, i dont expect this right away, but im hopeful in future this may come. thanks for the help though guys.

[vkdelta]

289, 600 and 1300 Mbps settings are actually HT20,H80 and HT80 respectively. We just named it so since most average non-technical users dont understand what HT20,40,80 means.

thanks for trying  current settings an I am glad it works.