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How to improve your wireless network (page 4 of 4)
To achieve higher speed modern wireless routers uses «channel bonding»
By bonding or combining two or more channels together, more bandwidth is available for
data transmission.
In 2.4 and 5 GHz frequency band, each channel is approximately 20 MHz wide.
In 802.11n, two adjacent channels, each of 20 MHz are bonded to get a total bandwidth of 40 MHz.
This provides increased channel width to transmit more data.
But the trade-off of using channel bonding is that fewer channels remain for other devices.
In areas with many other wireless networks, there can be limited of channels/bandwidth available,
resulting in unstable/slow connection because of interference from the other networks.
The setting that controls the number of channels is called "Channel bandwidth".
For the 2.4GHz wireless network you can choose between 20MHz (one channel) or 40MHz (two channels).
For the 5GHz wireless network it is 20Mhz, 40MHz or 80MHz (four channels).
If you are suffering from unstable/slow wireless connection and have tried changing channels and the other tips on
the preious pages without any luck we recommend that you try changing the channel width.
1. Start your browser (Chrome, Firefox etc.) and enter
http://192.168.38.1
2. Username =
admin
and password = 1
234
3. Click
SKIP
->
Advanced
->
Advanced Settings
4. Click
2.4GHz Wireless
(or
5GHz Wireless
) ->
Advanced Settings
5. For
2.4GHz
: Set Channel width to 20MHz
6. For
5GHz
: Set Channel width to 20MHz
7. Click
Apply
+
Apply
Now you can try out the wireless connection and see if it’s more stable.
NOTE!!
Lowering the channel width will give lower performance, but usually a more stable connection.
2.4 GHz
5 GHz
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