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Except overlapping channels create performance issues. 1-6-11 are the only non-overlapping channels that are practical to use. Chan 3 and 5 overlap 1 and 6 Chan 7 and 9 overlap 6 and 11 So when you overlap, you are impacting and being impacted by everyone who uses non-overlapping channels. Best solution? Spectrum analysis, then choose.

@@Kynetguy No, not true, because the farther transmitters are away, the weaker their signals become and on the fringe and the spillover fades away. You can effectively use 1, 5, and 9 in your house, while your neighbors to the left and right of you uses 3, 7, and 11... in the countryside.... with no loss of transmission speed. If I'm on Channel 5 in my house, my provimity to 5 will totally stomp over my neighbors on Chan 3 and 7 and I'll get a high SNR. But if my neighbor is on Chan 7 near him he will totally stomp over my Chan 5 but still get a high SNR as well, even if we are using them simultaneously. I know, I run a WAN blanketing the entire end of a culdesac with staggered 2.4ghz channels in this way. If you look how phone cell tower cells are done they use the exact same method which is where I got the idea. They plot out hex grids and stagger the channels so they can get away with using a small number of channels licenced to them over and over. Imagine tiling your bathroom with 6 different color tiles but you want to do it so no two same colored tiles touch. If you sort out the geometry on paper it can be done. The whole 1, 6, 11 clear channel thing has been repeated like a broken record without personal challenge by those that hear it so much so by those not in the know that its become accepted as some kind of gospel. On the other hard you also in crowded neighborhood cant just pick a random channel 1-11 and expect it to work great. A master plan with cooperation and channel staggering is required, and some would have to share their AP access while others completely shut theirs down. Whenever I enter a city like with a lot of small businesses clustered I see this kind of unplanned disaster... and every AP is locked... and the whole spectrum is useless for all almost all. Theres a lot of real signal stomping going on with packet space time sharing going on like a hub has to do... with guard times kicking in and backing off and retransmitting impacting performance.

@@choppergirl I agree with you. But when you throw out an unsupported statement about 1/5/9 to may people you run the risk of creating more problems than helping. Wireless is as much of an art as it is a science IMHO. Most people don’t have any way to analyze the spectrum around them. The solution for them is to pick a channel and turn the power up. Which as you obviously know, only exacerbates that problems with an already crowded space. Then they blast 1/5/9 in their crowded apartment building with as much power as their equipment will allow, and/or also add high gain antennae and just smash and stomp on everyone competing for signal and time slice.

@@Kynetguy All you have to do is download Wifi Analyzer for your phone and walk around to map the AP's around your area. When you do that, esp. in wooded areas, you realize 100mw does not travel far if it does not have line of sight. However, if you can get line of sight, you can make bridges with it that go quite far even with omnidirectional antennas... up to 150 yards even with omnis. Anything that contains moisture or metal... wood, leaves, roofs, etc will absorb or reflect it. The mantra to only use 1,6, 11 as clear channels is like bad advice repeated like how a mocking bird repeats a song without thinking about it. Bad advice spreads, is repeated by little sneezers, until it becomes gospel, and unquestioned. Another point of bad advice is to password protect your wifi AP... this is overwhelmingly bad advice. Why? You jam up the spectrum with AP's that nobody but you can use. Across the world now there are millions of AP's blanketing us with WIFI coverage, but any traveler to anywhere can't use them for shlt to check their email or send a text message because they are all locked down. I've run all my AP's for decades with no password with no problems. Anything sketchy anyone might do on my AP, I've done 100x more sketchy myself on the dark web LOL and nothing has come of it. The Helium network and Comcast with their free AP Hotspot acces with a login running on every Comcast users AP tried to solve this and failed mostly. So yeah, use all the channels if you are know what you are doing as an amateur wifi engineer, and do away with wifi passwords completely. You don't have a password on your garden hose out in your yard and anybody could come up and use it for free and even leave it running and cost you money, but so what. Nobody puts a lock on their garden hose, their bathrooms, or their refrigerators... and few on their mailboxes so... yeah... make things work first and foremost, and to do that, get rid of the anal paranoid security... wifi passwords are universally bad. I know my advice is against conventional belief, and I'm fine with that. You got to stand against the ocean of st00pldity out there sometimes. An ocean of people still think chocolate milk comes from brown cows...

@@Kynetguy I've unlocked and even used channels 12, 13, and 14 for wifi bridges between AP's. They aren't terribly useful otherwise, in the states, because US set client devices won't recognize them. But there's some free extra bandwidth for you right there on 2.4ghz that is most of the time wide open free, even in the most congested areas, if you can set your client device to Signapore to be able to use 12, 13, and 14. Otherwise, jump to 5ghz or 6ghz, or even 900mhz if your AP supports it. Even though it's not the best frequency for it, I run all my long distance bridges on the 5ghz band (N or AC), because few client devices even in 2024 support them, and then max out the 2.4ghz band coverage for connecting clients (smart phones, laptops, the like). Sadly, 2.4ghz is still what every device wants to use... (G or N).

Thanks so much, glad you liked the videos, I'm not exactly sure what video you are referring to, can you please let me know where I said I have such a video? Thanks again.

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There are many reasons why your Intel AX201 on your MSI GS66 Stealth might only connect to the 2.4GHz band. It could be due to range issues since 5GHz has a shorter range and struggles with obstructions. It could also be due to a setting on the wireless router that forces the device to connect to the 2.4GHz band. If your router uses Smart Connect, you might want to disable that and use separate Wi-Fi names for different bands. You should also check your laptop's network adapter settings to make sure the 5GHz band is preferred not the 2.4 ghz band. Also, see if the same issue happens with another device in the same spot, if it does, it’s probably a range problem.

@@Behfor But i went back to Windows 10 and it works a little bit better but i am fed up with it disconnecting so i'm gonna get another different wifi adapter. A better one.

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Hi there, thanks for sharing! Yes as long as both routers support AiMesh (which in your case they do) you should be fine, just keep in mind since both routers are dual-band, for the best performance it is recommended to use a wired backhaul. PS the ax82u looks really cool 😎👍

They probably told you, you should have a router with 2.5 Gbps wan port. That is for wired connection and has nothing to do with your wifi (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz). The older routers had 1 Gbps wan port but newer ones have 2.5 Gbps or higher. So I can guess because your fiber Internet connection is faster than 1 Gbps, your provider wants to make sure your router's wan port/internet port is faster than 1gbps. Hope that makes sense.

What do you mean you can't activate it! Elaborate please!

@@BehforI think he trying to say he trying to use 6ghz but doesn’t give an option to use it

@@Behforhow do I connect to 6ghz. It doesn’t pop up on available networks. It has the security option of wpa3 personal and cannot be changed

Start an OpenVPN server on your router. Then you can access your router (and all other devices as well) on your home network through an OpenVPN client on your portable device, be it an iPad, a PC or a phone. This way, you can keep the router closed to internet since your OpenVPN client will be on an extension of your home network.

First you should see if the bottleneck is your Internet connection or your local WiFi, then troubleshoot that.

This Wikipedia page has the information you need, thanks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

@@Behfor appreciate your help 🙏🏾 much respect

That's true, thanks!

Wifi 6 does not have the 6 GHz band only Wifi 6e (and Wifi 7)

Not sure what rental internet is, do you mean renting the modem/router?

Yes

That's good, if it is wifi 6e that means it has 3 bands otherwise it probably has 2 bands.

Yes