Judging from comments article is originally from around 2019, but still excitment backnthen from boosting 2,4Ghz i like being happy that you can drive motorbike on payvment instead of walking. Sure it is speed boost, but even slowest car on the road will be much faster.
Same goes for WiFi.
2,4Ghz is essentialy dead in flats and apartmenets for anything that needs speed over far rich. It is mostly essential only for IoT or old tech that is slow by nature, and works great with 20Mhz chanel.
Especialy that bosting chanel from 20Mhz to 40Mhz or even 80Mhz to watch 8k TV is plane stupid and selfish if You can use much faster 5Ghz on with 80 or 160Mhz chanel. Due to signal propagation it wont interfeat with neighbours so much and still will be much faster.
If You need stability do not mix WiFi frequencys and versions. As usually your clients will drop to slowest standards but with better signal strenght, when best You can get on 2,4Ghz i mostly far worse then You get even on medicore signal on 5Ghz-1 not mentioning 5Ghz-2.
Real life advice keep all frequencies with different names, so Your clients wont jump like crazy droppoing Your connection for 1-2 seconds avery fiew minutes or as You move one Your flat and Your client jumps back and forth from 2,4Ghz to 5Ghz 1 or 2.
Keep 2,4Ghz only for IoT or as last resort buckup with 20Mhz channel.
Use 5Hhzg-2 with 160Mhz channel wide if You can on AX standard only and here connect Yout PC, 8K TV etc there. Anything else should go on 5Ghz-1 with AC standard for compatibility and 80Mhz channel.
Have signal problem? Move Your router or use another in mesh, if You can connect them by LAN, hide cable in celling, behind furniture etc if will give You faaaaar better rich and speed that playing with 2,4Ghz and wont piss off Your neighbours, that by dooing so may say thank You by setting up 80Mhz AX on 2,4Ghz frequency on channel 6 so You will get sh.tty connection whatever setting and channel You will try to use.
OK You wont get 30% boost with speed but remember fastest teoretical speed You can get on 4×4 streams on 2,4Ghz AC with 40Mhz channel is around 800Mbps, while 2×2 strem on 5Ghz AC with 80Mhz channel cant give 866 Mbps. In reality there is no 4×4 clients, so fights on boosting 2,4Ghz freqency is like hopeing to run on payvmemt when You cant ride on the road.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I’m sure others will find it useful. As for this article, it was originally created in 2019. But we decided it to update it and bring it up to modern standards. Some of the information in the original was outdated.
Having a handoff issue with my phone. Ive got an 86u and a basic RT-ACRH13 router being used as an access point, Im using same ssid and credentials on them but different channels. When I move from one router to the next (AP) my samsung phone camps & wont switch to the stronger signal.
Ive read that android is not very good with switching till the signal is very weak, almost zero. Im not sure if this is true or if something else is at play. Suggestions are welcome?
Step 9 : set tx power adjusted on the 2.4ghz channel to good instead of performance, keep it on highest level for the 5ghz band. Your 2.4 ghz range could slightly drop, but your devices will connect quicker to the 5ghz band instead of the slower 2.4ghz band. For me this had enormous results.
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Judging from comments article is originally from around 2019, but still excitment backnthen from boosting 2,4Ghz i like being happy that you can drive motorbike on payvment instead of walking. Sure it is speed boost, but even slowest car on the road will be much faster.
Same goes for WiFi.
2,4Ghz is essentialy dead in flats and apartmenets for anything that needs speed over far rich. It is mostly essential only for IoT or old tech that is slow by nature, and works great with 20Mhz chanel.
Especialy that bosting chanel from 20Mhz to 40Mhz or even 80Mhz to watch 8k TV is plane stupid and selfish if You can use much faster 5Ghz on with 80 or 160Mhz chanel. Due to signal propagation it wont interfeat with neighbours so much and still will be much faster.
If You need stability do not mix WiFi frequencys and versions. As usually your clients will drop to slowest standards but with better signal strenght, when best You can get on 2,4Ghz i mostly far worse then You get even on medicore signal on 5Ghz-1 not mentioning 5Ghz-2.
Real life advice keep all frequencies with different names, so Your clients wont jump like crazy droppoing Your connection for 1-2 seconds avery fiew minutes or as You move one Your flat and Your client jumps back and forth from 2,4Ghz to 5Ghz 1 or 2.
Keep 2,4Ghz only for IoT or as last resort buckup with 20Mhz channel.
Use 5Hhzg-2 with 160Mhz channel wide if You can on AX standard only and here connect Yout PC, 8K TV etc there. Anything else should go on 5Ghz-1 with AC standard for compatibility and 80Mhz channel.
Have signal problem? Move Your router or use another in mesh, if You can connect them by LAN, hide cable in celling, behind furniture etc if will give You faaaaar better rich and speed that playing with 2,4Ghz and wont piss off Your neighbours, that by dooing so may say thank You by setting up 80Mhz AX on 2,4Ghz frequency on channel 6 so You will get sh.tty connection whatever setting and channel You will try to use.
OK You wont get 30% boost with speed but remember fastest teoretical speed You can get on 4×4 streams on 2,4Ghz AC with 40Mhz channel is around 800Mbps, while 2×2 strem on 5Ghz AC with 80Mhz channel cant give 866 Mbps. In reality there is no 4×4 clients, so fights on boosting 2,4Ghz freqency is like hopeing to run on payvmemt when You cant ride on the road.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I’m sure others will find it useful. As for this article, it was originally created in 2019. But we decided it to update it and bring it up to modern standards. Some of the information in the original was outdated.
I bought the RT-AX3000 but wifi 6 speeds are slower than wifi 5.
Having a handoff issue with my phone. Ive got an 86u and a basic RT-ACRH13 router being used as an access point, Im using same ssid and credentials on them but different channels. When I move from one router to the next (AP) my samsung phone camps & wont switch to the stronger signal.
Ive read that android is not very good with switching till the signal is very weak, almost zero. Im not sure if this is true or if something else is at play. Suggestions are welcome?
Step 9 : set tx power adjusted on the 2.4ghz channel to good instead of performance, keep it on highest level for the 5ghz band. Your 2.4 ghz range could slightly drop, but your devices will connect quicker to the 5ghz band instead of the slower 2.4ghz band. For me this had enormous results.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.