topic hub 2 only offers narrow range of WiFi channels in My Router

hub 2 only offers narrow range of WiFi channels

shinyblue — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:05:37 GMT

Just set up my hub 2 router but on the channel selector it only has a small range of channels available. I get a lot of interference from neigbours. All the channels have 4 or more access points on them. My last router's 5GHz channel was set to 100 but this does not seem to be an option?

Re: hub 2 only offers narrow range of WiFi channels

shinyblue — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:29:35 GMT

Screenshot of WiFi analyzer

Re: hub 2 only offers narrow range of WiFi channels

RichardB — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:40:18 GMT

Hi,
To operate on channels higher than channel 48 the router is required by OFCOM to support DFS.
Detailed background in the whitepaper which can be found from:
https://wifinigel.blogspot.com/p/5ghz-in-uk.html?m=1

Most domestic grade routers do not appear to implement DFS.

Re: hub 2 only offers narrow range of WiFi channels

dvorak — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:11:44 GMT

Moderators Note

This topic has been moved from Fibre to My Router

Re: hub 2 only offers narrow range of WiFi channels

shinyblue — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:40:24 GMT

OK, thanks for the answer.

The Plusnet Hub 2 router modem is a bit of a disappointment: few wifi channels means it will struggle in urban environments and [firmware that restricts the full potential of the hardware](https://community.plus.net/t5/Fibre-Broadband/Plusnet-hub-2-router-How-to-use-WAN-port-as-LAN-port-4-and-check/m-p/1852247#M131630).