This is band steering, which essentially makes it so that anyone just connects to one SSID and the router (based on whatever conditions) determines whether to put them on the 5GHz or the 2.4GHz. You can do channel bonding, which combines two channels and transmits on that, taking up 40MHz, but the issue is that this is going to be bad for your neighbors since you're taking up more frequencies.Įnable Smart Connect. Only 1,6,11 don't overlap at all I believe. WiFi channel frequency: within a band, there are channels, which are just regions of frequency, I think for 2.4GHz the channels are each 20MHz wide. 5GHz is regulated and costs more to produce something on it, so there are fewer things crowding that frequency band. That's why there is so much garbage using it, cordless phones, microwaves, baby monitors, etc.
WiFi Frequency Band: 2.4GHz has been around a lot longer and is unregulated. Each of these spectrums have a maximum theoretical limit that you're unlikely to hit in practice. These also come with algorithmic changes that increase the speeds. So, basically, it's just increasing our wavelength use over time so we can get more bandwidth through the air.
Wireless Spectrum: graphic below, essentially, these are revisions by the IEEE which actually open up new frequencies/change the frequencies that we're able to communicate on. IP: dynamically get from ISP (no real choice here).ĭNS: changed to Google's (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) I wanted to make sure I understood all the settings that could be changed so that required a decent bit of research.
Notes about some local area networking basics which I took while setting up my first router, the Netgear Nighthawk R7000P.
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