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Broadband Related => Broadband Hardware => Topic started by: Geekofbroadband on August 30, 2014, 03:47:26 PM

Title: R7000, Enable or Disable wireless WMM?
Post by: Geekofbroadband on August 30, 2014, 03:47:26 PM

Should I disable WMM? It was on from default but I noticed My Xbox 360 (Wireless N) and iPad (Wireless N 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz) are very sow sometimes, could this be the WMM because I have seen its not very good for some people. And also I know the non overalpping channels for 2.4Ghz are 1,6,11 but what about the 5Ghz channels all I have on my router are 36,40,44,46 are they all non overlaping thanks

Title: Re: R7000, Enable or Disable wireless WMM?
Post by: ejs on August 31, 2014, 05:25:16 PM

Apparently disabling WMM may also disable Wireless N speeds. See http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/30938-dont-mess-with-wmm

For the 5GHz channels,
channel 36 = 5180 MHz
channel 40 = 5200 MHz
channel 44 = 5220 MHz

So channels 36 and 40 don't overlap for using 20MHz of bandwidth, but both channels 36 and 40 would be used for 40MHz of bandwidth.

Title: Re: R7000, Enable or Disable wireless WMM?
Post by: GigabitEthernet on September 01, 2014, 12:54:33 PM

It's odd, some routers only allow channel 36 on the 5GHz band. Some allow the three listed above.