Netgear Insight AP, WAX615
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.
Thanks for the feedback!
I’m having difficulty keeping all my smart home devices connected including a couple cameras. They are all on my 2.4GHz channel.
I think i’m going to make a seperate post with my settings and ask for advice.
Appreciate it!
2 4GHz doesn’t generally handle wide channels as well when you have neighbours around like it seems you do, and you already have devices with signal issues. You likely just need a second access point wired to the first (or backhauled on 5GHz)
I have the two APs mentioned - WAX615’s, one on the 1st floor, one on the second. Should I mesh them? Currently the both broadcast the same:, one SSID on 5GHz, oneon 2.4GHz.
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.
Depends on the capabilities and settings of your WAP.
Good grief. Width issue aside, you’re competing with a lot of other access points. That’s wild.
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.
