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Netgear Insight AP, WAX615

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Note that widening the channel may or may NOT increase 5Ghz wifi throughput.

A couple of reasons that I know of:

- at that "center" channel 62 any widening would overlap the very busy looking 44 next door, i.e. increase in interference..

- many client device's can't use 40 or 80Ghz-width 5Ghz channels anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

802.11n and newer devices can use 40mhz channels. That technology came out over a decade ago.

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