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Hi team,
I've got an AX11000 running Merlin 388.1.
I was tinkering around with the 5GHZ-2 settings as I recently got on 1GB fiber optic internet. I thought I'd make the 5GHZ-2 channel AX only and try to get as much speed out of it as possible. I found a few strange things, and I'm thinking maybe this behavior falls under the category of "known limitations that I am unaware of".
Interestingly, when I looked at this reference for WLAN channels, I saw that only a few channels in the upper range seemed to support 160MHZ. Not sure if that is when used as a control channel or what. For example. 114 and 163 are the only ones that look like they work well with 160MHZ bandwidth, but maybe I'm reading the charts wrong.
I know I've listed a lot of different things here, I'm just curious if anyone has seen similar weirdness with the AX11000 or other routers. I did try searching around in the forum. I saw someone else with 160MHZ issues on AX11000, but it looked like more of a UI problem.
Anyway, thanks for your time and attention! This is a great forum, it's nice to be here and benefit from the collective wisdom.
I've got an AX11000 running Merlin 388.1.
I was tinkering around with the 5GHZ-2 settings as I recently got on 1GB fiber optic internet. I thought I'd make the 5GHZ-2 channel AX only and try to get as much speed out of it as possible. I found a few strange things, and I'm thinking maybe this behavior falls under the category of "known limitations that I am unaware of".
- I can't use 160MHZ bandwidth at all. Doesn't matter if I explicitly set it, it only ever does 80MHZ. This one seems reasonable because, from what I'm reading on the forums, the router has many ways to detect interference and bounce down to something lower and it seems likely that there is interference around here as I'm outside Barcelona, and it's pretty
- If I try 160MHZ and set any control channel (even 100), the radio doesn't work. Similar to the next item, the network doesn't show up when I use these settings. Even though it automatically selects channel 100, the radio stops working if I manually try to use the same channel.
- Even when using 80MHZ bandwidth, most control channels don't work for me. I can select them, apply the settings, etc., but it seems that the 5GHZ-2 radio doesn't work. The network doesn't even show up. No errors were reported (I'm not looking in logs, just in the UI). I could only get this to work control channel 108 or lower.
- Auto channel selection always picks channel 100. I looked at the site survey tool, and many other networks use channel 100 as a control channel and nearby channels as extensions, but auto-select seems to default to 100.
- My channel selection tops out at 128. I bought this router in the UK and now use it in Spain. I seem to remember another device I had that would go up to 160 something. This one is almost certainly expected, I just thought the UK and Spain permitted higher channels than 128.
Interestingly, when I looked at this reference for WLAN channels, I saw that only a few channels in the upper range seemed to support 160MHZ. Not sure if that is when used as a control channel or what. For example. 114 and 163 are the only ones that look like they work well with 160MHZ bandwidth, but maybe I'm reading the charts wrong.
I know I've listed a lot of different things here, I'm just curious if anyone has seen similar weirdness with the AX11000 or other routers. I did try searching around in the forum. I saw someone else with 160MHZ issues on AX11000, but it looked like more of a UI problem.
Anyway, thanks for your time and attention! This is a great forum, it's nice to be here and benefit from the collective wisdom.