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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, rural person? (This is what my mapping looks like and I'm in the burbs)
What app is that?
Looks like Wifi Analyzer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=abdelrahman.wifianalyzerpro
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.
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