Limit my Deco W3600 to work in 5Ghz band 4 only

Limit my Deco W3600 to work in 5Ghz band 4 only

Limit my Deco W3600 to work in 5Ghz band 4 only
Limit my Deco W3600 to work in 5Ghz band 4 only
2024-06-25 21:57:44 - last edited 2024-06-26 07:03:17
Model: Deco W3600  
Hardware Version:
Firmware Version: 1.2.4 Build 20231206 Rel. 32618

Hello TP-Link!

 

First of all this is my first experience of mesh wifi network and it is going great so far.

 

I got 3x Deco W3600 from my brother in US that works great, only issue I am facing is 5Ghz band selection. As I am in Pakistan so we only have band 4 in 5Ghz.

 

Please help me to select or limit my deco to band 4 only for 5Ghz.

 

Please note my deco model is W3600. I just choose x20 because I was unable to find my model in the list.

 

I will be very thankful for any help.

 

 

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Re:Limit my Deco W3600 to work in 5Ghz band 4 only
2024-06-26 08:19:06

  @FaisalSaleem 

Hi,  welcome to the community.

If only band 4 is allowed in Pakistan, the locally sold products would prefer band 4 as well.

However, for the Deco W3600, designed primarily for US Walmart, the 5GHz Wi-Fi would prioritize band 1 first, as it is one of the most commonly used 5GHz channels in the US.

 

There hasn't been a beta firmware for Deco W3600 which allows to re-selecting the default 5GHz band since the Band selection automatically follows up with the region code embedded into the hardware. In this way, I'm afraid you might need to purchase a new Deco unit directly from the local market.

Thank you very much and best regards. 

 

 

 

 

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Re:Limit my Deco W3600 to work in 5Ghz band 4 only
2024-06-26 08:47:01 - last edited 2024-06-26 20:06:32

  @David-TP 

Thank you very much for the response.

 

I got your point, one more thing I have also got 2 Deco x20 which are also limited to band 1. Can you provide me beta firmware for x20 for band 4 only ?

Deco HW version 2.6

 

And for future, is it not better, instead of region locking a Deco give us region or country selection option during setup process of Deco and bands should be adjust automatically so no one face this issue anymore. What do you say ? 

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Re:Limit my Deco W3600 to work in 5Ghz band 4 only
2024-06-27 04:03:08

  @FaisalSaleem 

Hi, Did you purchase the Deco X20_V2.6 in Pakistan?

 

I often heard that the 5GHz band only uses band 4 in Bangladesh so the Deco products, sold in Bangladesh are all customized. But I didn't recall engineers mentioned the same in Pakistan. I didn't find any information online that mentioned that only band 4 is allowed in Pakistan either.

Do you have any online links or documents about the local wireless regulation?

 

I'm not sure whether"instead of region locking a Deco gives us region or country selection option during setup process of Deco" complies with import and export regulations or not, but I will record it as a feature request.

Thank you very much and best regards.

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Re:Limit my Deco W3600 to work in 5Ghz band 4 only
2024-06-27 15:31:38 - last edited 2024-06-27 19:17:16

  @David-TP 

Yes, I purchased it from a seller on Daraz store (online).

 

Actually here is Pakistan new android devices do support band 1 but normally most android devices only support band 4.

This is the latest available document, according to this document Pakistan do support band 1, band 2, band 3 and band 4.

File:
iot_srd_regulatory_framework_07-02-2023.pdfDownload
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