I'm setting up someone's RT-AX3000 remotely. They're not very tech savvy, so I can't ask them to install WiFi Analyzer and scan their channels. But I noticed that 160 MHz channel is enabled by default on that router (It wasn't on my RT-AX86U). At the same time "Auto select channel including DFS channels" is unticked by default.
So my question is, how can it do 160 MHz without auto using DFS channels? Why would they enable this by default knowing that some people would have DFS interference? I'm guessing the router would just scale back to DFS-free 80 MHz if there is DFS interference, so there's no disruption? I'm tempted to just disable it and set 80/40/20 by default, but this person will never mess with their settings again and I want to leave it in a futureproof state, in case they get faster (gigabit) internet and 160 MHz-capable devices in the future.
Any idea on how the router can be set up this way and/or recommendations? Thank you.
Edit: It's also on auto channel 40, which doesn't make sense because you can't center a 160 MHz channel on 40. So maybe it's on 80 MHz despite saying 20/40/80/160, and unless you tick the "Auto select including DFS", it won't do 160 MHz.
So my question is, how can it do 160 MHz without auto using DFS channels? Why would they enable this by default knowing that some people would have DFS interference? I'm guessing the router would just scale back to DFS-free 80 MHz if there is DFS interference, so there's no disruption? I'm tempted to just disable it and set 80/40/20 by default, but this person will never mess with their settings again and I want to leave it in a futureproof state, in case they get faster (gigabit) internet and 160 MHz-capable devices in the future.
Any idea on how the router can be set up this way and/or recommendations? Thank you.
Edit: It's also on auto channel 40, which doesn't make sense because you can't center a 160 MHz channel on 40. So maybe it's on 80 MHz despite saying 20/40/80/160, and unless you tick the "Auto select including DFS", it won't do 160 MHz.
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