Change wifi channel on Deco X60
Hi
How do I change Wifi Channel on a Deco X60. I can see I have a lot of other networks on channel 48, which seems to be the default.
If it not possible to change it, can you tell me IF TP-LInk has it on the roadmap to add it as a parameter.
Last question, shouldn't it be possible to 160MHz?
Thanks in advance
/BR
Jørgen Dissing
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@StrixinHi, I am on 2.14.24 IOS as well and maybe I forget mentioning one step.
You might need to click WiFI SSID or password/security to go to the next page and it is on the same page(the bottom) where you change the SSID name and password.
Best regards.
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@David-TP Ah! Amazing! You are 100% correct. That's about the only thing I didn't think to click as I was frantically trying to fix my screw up today because it didn't look clickable. Weird the other tech support didn't know this was a thing.
The follow up question though - I turned off "automatic switching between channel width" which was part of the notification I got this morning. Is there anywhere to turn that back on?
Legend, thank you!
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Hi, Thanks for the update.
So far I haven't found anywhere that you could enable "automatic switching between channel width". But I believe this notification would pop up again if there is a radar interference later.
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@David-TP Are you still able to configure with the updated app?
It seems my DECO's are for the US region, however, I live in AU. I am stuck on channel 40 and 2 5G/2.4G respectively...
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@Dissing I really wish I found this thread before buying X60 x 3 units of this for $300+, a such a simple thing as changing your channel is not part of this and I was so close to Orbi, I stupidly enough didn't do my research about the channels because I just expected such expensive hardware would obviously have a very easy click in an app to change channel just like my oldest of routers that are ancient. Orbi has it
https://community.netgear.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22508i7262B9F5DE0D4E5C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999
It's 2023, it's still not here, this thread started in 2020, it tells me its not coming.
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@David-TP wooow! Heavy stuff!
thx for a thorough explanation.
I see, this article is really old.
I'm a new Deco user and faced this problem with changing channels.
However, why don't you allow users to choose whether they use automatic or manual channel selection?
And add this explanation of yours to the manual.... like it's at your own risk!
At least users will be happy to be able to make a choice.
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I see the rationale behind why TP-Link won't allow users to change channels but there is another reason to allow this in today's world not mentioned here.
I have about 50 ZigBee home automation devices around the house that also work in the 2.4GHz band. And the ZigBee and WiFi channels overlap. But since WiFi is much more powerful, this causes my ZigBee devices to lose connection constantly.
This especially an issue because each Deco unit may use a different 2.4GHz channel depending on the channel usage around it and changing the ZigBee channel will not work reliably across the house.
For reference, here is the channel overlap
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