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5Ghz channels
Hello, I saw this topic here. But I would like understand why all upper 5Ghz channels are unavailabled for the clients. In Europe, at least in France, we can use the next channels in 80Mhz : ...
Hi
I agree with all the points in this thread and submitted an idea to Negear to address this major product flaw. See https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/Please-provide-more-5GHZ-wifi-channel-options-restricting-to/idc-p/1641642#M1785
Please give it Kudos and try and get Negtgear to look at it as it's not even been reviewed yet - Negear keeping asking for product feedback but very very slow in even responding to ideas and so far only 1 idea submitted (out of hundreds) has been implemented.
It definately impacts my 5HGZ performance as I live in a very congested 5GHZ area which means even when I'm only 20 feets from the main Orbi router my iPhone keeps switching to 2.4GHZ signal as it can't lock onto the 5GHZ from the Orbi as too many other signals near by! Which defeats the object of having mesh network as I get worse speeds near the router than I would with my old Apple Airport Extreme!
Kudoed (is that even a word *grin*) and hope this gets a lot more attention, especially from Netgear.
Please feel free to post about this here:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
Good Luck.
BrutusNL wrote:
Kudoed (is that even a word *grin*) and hope this gets a lot more attention, especially from Netgear.
It appears (to me) that Netgear elected NOT to implement DFS in the Orbi. Check this out:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-Compatible-Smart-Plugs/m-p/1676535#M47405
It seems that 5G devices are supposed to monitor for radar signals when they select channel besides the ones Orbi is using. When they detect radar, they are required to change. Not being compliant is probably a "big deal" to the government. So, it's not a simple matter of adding frequencies to the table and letting the user select from them. There's a good chance that radar signals do not "look like" WiFi signals, so this programming may not be trivial. (sigh)
Would be interested to know if any other consumer 5G WiFi brands implement DFS. (Maybe they all avoid those channels as Netgear does.)
It also doesn't help us that 5G channels do not overlap, only as long as a person wants only a small bandwidth. Netgear gets 866MB bandwidth by combining all the available channels.
Orbi uses 80 MHz channel width on 5 GHz. There are only two non-overlapping non-DFS 80 MHz channels in the 5 GHz band. Orbi uses one for the backhaul and the other for client data. Unless you allow DFS, which it seems no NETGEAR routers do, there isn't really anything left to tweak. NETGEAR could allow you to choose to use 40 MHz or 20 MHz channel width, but the throughput would be 1/2 or 1/4 and people would then complain about slow speeds.
