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Netgear Insight AP, WAX615
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.
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.
Appreciate it!
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)
I have the two APs mentioned - WAX615's, one on the 1st floor, one on the second. Should I mesh them? Currently the both broadcast the same:, one SSID on 5GHz, oneon 2.4GHz.
Mesh them!
Hardwire the cameras. You want reliability, that's the only way.
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.
Put the 2.4g on lowest width, 5g on the widest where everything still has a good connection
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.
802.11n and newer devices can use 40mhz channels. That technology came out over a decade ago.
On channels wider than 20, All management and control frames use a designated primary 20mhz wide channel within the wider channel to provide backwards compatibility with legacy clients.
Depends on the capabilities and settings of your WAP.
Good grief. Width issue aside, you're competing with a lot of other access points. That's wild.
That's not alot. At my old home I used to use DFS until a radar plane flew over and everyone's wifi defaulted to the same channel. The Linksys WRT32X was just trash in a fancy case though.
That's a textbook definition of contested airspace.
It's always possible one or two moronic neighbors are responsible though the misuse of mesh network gear.
More like one or six, by the looks of it. If you look at the screenshot really carefully, there are many SSIDs that are duplicated for some reason, and a lot of hidden SSIDs. It might also be a bug of the software in the screenshot, idk.
Finally a good use for the lawn- a deadzone
Oh, rural person? (This is what my mapping looks like and I'm in the burbs)
What app is that?
Yea umm… how do you even see something like this and what am I even looking at?
Because you are using less channels. Bigger doesn't always mean better.
You will actually get a better single where you are then using the same area as everyone else which will just cause co-channel interference.
Bigger means better. But other factor is neighbors noise. Which amplify the issue on wider channel.
Some people are really abusing channel width!
What app is this one specifically?
Put Jellybean on the same Channel as your neighbors, co-channel is best