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[Aly]

Hi all!

New member to the forum but I've read for many years  loads of great guides and advice here.

I bought a TP-Link Archer VR900 based on reviews on here and I love it, I went from an ASUS RT-AC68U and the biggest thing I missed from that router was the channels aside from 36,40,44,48.

Today I accidentally stumbled on how to access more channels.

Note* This may not work for you and I must also add that I can't control what channel I jump on, sometimes I go onto 60 or something else, or it may be something higher.

I've attached screenshots to help.

I first changed my Time settings to Canada in System Tools.
I then changed the channel to 48 and the width to 80mhz.

Then rebooted the router.

I must also add if like me you own an Nvidia Shield then your 5ghz Wifi won't work on Band B but now I have no interference from neighbours.

Let me know if this also worked for you.

[Aly]

Sorry this was the attachment I forgot to include to show that I'm on Band B channels

[Dray]

I think you're breaking the law by broadcasting Canadian wifi channels

[Aly]

I think you're breaking the law by broadcasting Canadian wifi channels

Even though my Asus RT-AC68U came with these channels out the box?
I'm not disputing it may be un lawful but my Asus was bought as a UK models and now I can access the channels that was using.

[Ronski]

Don't worry Aly your still perfectly legal,  although channel 64 is at the top end of band A, and not in band B which you can also legally use.

Note all hardware operating in Band B must conform to DFS (Dynamic Frequency Selection)  standards and DFS must be enabled.

http://www.digitalairwireless.com/wireless-blog/recent/quick-guide-to-5ghz-uk-part-1.html

[Aly]

Don't worry Aly your still perfectly legal,  although channel 64 is at the top end of band A, and not in band B which you can also legally use.

Note all hardware operating in Band B must conform to DFS (Dynamic Frequency Selection)  standards and DFS must be enabled.

http://www.digitalairwireless.com/wireless-blog/recent/quick-guide-to-5ghz-uk-part-1.html

Thanks for the clarification Ronski.

So for anyone else interested I've found that if you click save without changes on 5ghz network it will put you on a new channel. So far I've had 60, 110 and 140. I've noticed the higher it goes the throughput is slightly higher.

I'm currently on 110 is that a band b channel?

Doing this has increased my WiFi signal by 5% and eliminated all interference. The speed isn't as high as on the default channels but that's an alright sacrifice to make for no signal drops.

[Aly]

Sorry for the double post but using WiFi Analyser it shows how I've moved away from the congestion

[TheWatcher]

Interesting. I too had noticed the lack of channels - only 36,40,44,and 48. I tried your method of setting zone to Canada etc and rebooting but I am still on Ch48 as selected. No end of SAVEs will change channel to anything else. Why have TP-link restricted the channels like this?

[j0hn]

Odd that you have 80MHz selected but WiFi analyser shows the router is only using 20MHz.

No idea why some manufacturers block the higher 5GHz channels. Perfectly legal to use with DFS enabled.
Unfortunately too many of my devices don't work on the higher channels.