Solved BE88U interference with headphone.

[c0ldfyr3]

Got a second BE88U router for my office and it causes interference with my Corsair Virtuoso XT headphones on dongle mode. Contacted Corsair and they said turn off 2.5 band and that does work, the headphones work fine, so I either go back to a WiFi 6 AX88U Pro with only 1Gbs ports but both WiFi bands or stay with the BE88U with 4 x 2.5Gb ports but only 5G WiFi.

To be fair it’s my office and everything is wired except my iPhone. The rest of the apartment that has 2.5 GHz IoT devices is fine and the 2.5 in the WiFi 6 routers don’t interfere with the headphones. What a ball of crap though.

Corsair also said try adjusting the channel of the 2.5Ghz radio so I tried 1, 3, 6, 9 and 13 and the interference was the same. The AX88U Pro I had before this did not interfere whatsoever but the BU88E is unbearable.

Wondering are there any other suggestions?

The BE88U is part of a mesh network, the mesh controller is also a BE88U and the other two mesh nodes are AX56Us which don’t cause interference with these headphones.

 

[degrub]

get a wired headset ?

 

[c0ldfyr3]

Why did you even reply? If I wanted a wired headset I’d have one already but I use one that I can use without a wire because I move around and use it with two different machines. I mean, I thought Corsair’s reply was bad but this is another level…

 

[bbunge]

There should be a WIFI setting in the Professional tab called Bluetooth Coexistence. It is disable by default. Enabling it may help and would be worth a try. Otherwise going back to your prior router may be another option. Some feel that WIFI 7 is not ready for prime time...

 

[Ripshod]

My 2.4GHz headphones went in the bin. It's not just the frequency they connect on, they tend to produce lots of noise across the whole band in close proximity (the nature of digital radio). Caused nothing but trouble with 2.4 wifi and bluetooth. Analogue wireless headphones don't cause such problems.

 

[Justinh]

Analogue wireless headphones don't cause such problems.

But this means wired, correct?

 

[Ripshod]

But this means wired, correct?

Negative. Wireless analogue headphones exist that operate in the several hundred MHz (UHF) band.
Like these

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[sfx2000]

move the device over to bluetooth and set aside the USB dongle thingy...

 

[c0ldfyr3]

There should be a WIFI setting in the Professional tab called Bluetooth Coexistence. It is disable by default. Enabling it may help and would be worth a try. Otherwise going back to your prior router may be another option. Some feel that WIFI 7 is not ready for prime time...

This didn't work.

 

[c0ldfyr3]

Blue

move the device over to bluetooth and set aside the USB dongle thingy...

Bluetooth for two way I/O like voice chat is complete trash and you can hear it sounds like 2 cups on strings.

 

[c0ldfyr3]

I fixed it in the end by changing Region from China to Europe and can now enable 2.4 Ghz and everything works. Considering I bought both the router and headphones in China there are so many things wrong with this statement but here we are.

 

[sfx2000]

I fixed it in the end by changing Region from China to Europe and can now enable 2.4 Ghz and everything works. Considering I bought both the router and headphones in China there are so many things wrong with this statement but here we are.

Cool - good to know...