Hi Folks,
Right, I've had a bit of a dilemma over past 18 months with home wireless equipment, reasons mainly are either wireless router not strong enough to get through walls or wireless router won't use less/non congested wireless channels (both 2G & 5G), various faults/bugs with routers/firmware and now bad configuration (wireless channels/regions)
A brief bit of kit history, moved into new flat in December, had BT Infinity installed at end of January, started using HH5B, wireless wasn't too bad but kept using same channels as other 3 neighbors above, below and to the right so had to set it manually, then started to miss my guest network from previous network configs and HH5 was faulty, so BT sent a new HH5 but during that time I'd replaced the HH5 with a VR900...
VR900 was very good, wireless used non congested DFS channels 100 - 112, range was good too, however there was a firmware fault which made it broadcast randoms sequences of dots and dashs to devices DNS causing them to lose connection to web... sent it back... all this messing on DSL now had upset DLM... so put my old HG612 on the wall so it wouldn't be interrupted anymore.
I then brought a Archer C9 as it was basically the VR900 minus the VDSL modem, it don't have the same problem and works well... if it's setup as American!
If I set it up as in United Kingdom or Europe it will only use channel 36 - 48 which is being used by 2 HH5's and a TalkTalk router, also range is pants.... setting it up as American is great, the range will go to opposite end of apartment block
... however this is against spectrum regulations and I'm aware that I should be applying for a license from Ofcom to use the band which will be refused as it's supposed to be used in direct connections only and not for Access Point type use.
So this will probably end up going back too...
Does anybody currently own a router, have it set to auto channel and it currently uses 100 or above.... I'm really sick of rubbish wifi now, and not willing to relocated to the US to get some decent range.