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Why isn't there an advanced options page to select different wifi channels?

ccs46
ccs46 Posts: 3 Spectator
edited March 8 in Home Networking

For whatever reason, the Spectrum Mobile SSID of my neighbors and their SSIDs for 5Ghz wants to keep sticking to 157.

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Is there a reason that the SBE1V1K is not capable of switching to a different channel automatically or allowing a end user to change this setting?

I get it its simplified to reduce the amount of calls Spectrum gets because some screwed up their wifi, but I would expect this device to at least allow for rescanning manually to pick a better channel, especially in some congested environments such as townhouses.

Maybe require you visit the IP of the router to make the change versus the Spectrum app?

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  • Satch
    Satch Posts: 6,276 Contributor
    Answer ✓

    Hello there @ccs46 Welcome to our Community!

    I am not sure, but I think that if you rent any equipment from Spectrum, the ability to change security settings is locked down on a lot of equipment. It's probably for the reasons you cited above. Spectrum does not want to be yielding to hundreds of calls that come in saying that their WIFI is messed up because casual customers went in and changed their security settings.

    If you want to change channel settings like you describe, you would have to get your own router. I could be wrong here, but I don't think so.

    Satch

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  • HT_Greenfield
    HT_Greenfield Posts: 1,276 Contributor

    Forget about it. That's literally by Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax and now also Wi-Fi 7 802.11be channel "coloring" design and that particular hyper-coexistence black magic is not something to try to defeat.

    🔗 https://www.howtogeek.com/368332/wi-fi-6-whats-different-and-why-it-matters/ ↳ How Wi-Fi 6 Battles Congestion ↳ "You don't really need to know the details. … Wireless access points near each other may be transmitting on the same channel. … With Wi-Fi 6, wireless access points near each other can be configured to have different Basic Service Set (BSS) "colors." … so this will improve performance in congested areas, and is also called "spatial frequency re-use." […] "

  • ccs46
    ccs46 Posts: 3 Spectator
    edited March 22

    The buffer bloat the SBE1V1X seems to have is really really bad. Can spectrum engineers maybe take a look at some firmware that improves the QOS? It hasn’t gotten an update since January.

  • ccs46
    ccs46 Posts: 3 Spectator

    The bufferbloat the SBE1V1X seems to have is really really bad. Can spectrum engineers maybe take a look at the onboard QOS settings?

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