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Why is my 5GHz so narrow compared to other houses around? "Jellybean" in the center (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum
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Netgear Insight AP, WAX615

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[–] [B] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Increase your channel width to 80 MHz. Yours is set to 40 or lower.

Increasing channel width will increase bandwidth but reduce range and increase interference.

If you only have a basic router channel width settings may not be available though.

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  • [–] [S, B] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Thanks for the feedback!

    I'm having difficulty keeping all my smart home devices connected including a couple cameras. They are all on my 2.4GHz channel.

    I think i'm going to make a seperate post with my settings and ask for advice.

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    Appreciate it!

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    2 4GHz doesn't generally handle wide channels as well when you have neighbours around like it seems you do, and you already have devices with signal issues. You likely just need a second access point wired to the first (or backhauled on 5GHz)

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Quite a number of smart home devices may not even support 5GHz wifi, I would check first.

    5GHz/40MHz wifi should be good for ~300Mbps in the same room but will rapidly go down with distance and obstructions.

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