ComputerAbuser
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I recently installed an ASUS RT-AX86U to replace my old Netgear Nighthawk R7000. I wanted to add AX and my R7000 was running really old firmware (Netgear removed the media server from newer versions of the firmware, so I was stuck on firmware that was several years old).
So far everything is great, except when using 2.4GHz. I want to limit the router to a 20MHz channel bandwidth. If I choose Auto Wireless Mode (to gain 802.11N support) it switches to 40MHz even if I have the channel bandwidth set to 20Mhz. I verified this with LinSSID in Linux.
I have to use Wireless Mode Legacy in order for it to correctly use only 20MHz.
Is this just a bug in the firmware? I can live with only B/G on 2.4GHz, but I shouldn't have to. My old R7000 had no problem doing B/G/N on 2.4GHz with a 20MHz channel.
So far everything is great, except when using 2.4GHz. I want to limit the router to a 20MHz channel bandwidth. If I choose Auto Wireless Mode (to gain 802.11N support) it switches to 40MHz even if I have the channel bandwidth set to 20Mhz. I verified this with LinSSID in Linux.
I have to use Wireless Mode Legacy in order for it to correctly use only 20MHz.
Is this just a bug in the firmware? I can live with only B/G on 2.4GHz, but I shouldn't have to. My old R7000 had no problem doing B/G/N on 2.4GHz with a 20MHz channel.