Piece of Junk ARCHER C2300
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ANYONE ELSE BUY ONE OF THE DESK PAPER WEIGHTS?
Can not enable the 5GHZ mode because it says not supported in your country
BUT says the same on any country I connect to!
Support will not help even after I waited on hold for help for 3.5 hours
So I complain here first
then I will do a youtube video where I SMASH the router.
This is TRULY the WORST PRODUCT I EVER USED IN MY LIFE AS A CISCO CCIE.
DO NOT BUY ONE
Hi Riley!
The device was purchased online, from a reputable retail vendor in the same country for its use. It is used base simple config, no vpn,
- simply a router after a fiber modem that output 1GB down 500MB up.
I have included a picture of bottom of router so you can see it is shows US.
The issue began after the firmware was upgraded from the base factory release level.
Product firmware on arrival
ArcherC2300v1_us-up-1.0.1_Build_20170302_Rel.28711
After first upgrade to
Archer C2300(US)_V1_170922
antennas for 5g were killed,
tried next level
c2300v1_us-up-2.0.3_Build_20180611_Rel.77668_sign_2018-06-12_09.58.27
still antennas for 5g were killed,
tried most current level
c2300v1_us-up-2.0.4_Build_20210705_Rel.68265_sign_2021-07-05_18.59.06
now this is what I see (second image shows 5g antennas disabled - FOR NO VALID REASON. No way this device querried its GPS location.
I may not have the answer, but have you looked at the Channel in the Advanced Wireless settings for 5G?
It might be set to a Channel you can't use that require DFS and TPC which the router probably doesn't have?
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UNII-2
The UNII-2 section also contains four channels – 52, 56, 60, and 64. They occupy bandwidths from 5,250MHz to 5,350MHz. This range is also referred to as UNII-2A. The UNII-2B range sits between 5,350MHz and 5,470MHz. The UNII-2C/UNII-2 Extended range is found between 5,470MHz and 5,725MHz. This range includes channels from 100 to 140. In order to use this range, your device needs to be equipped with Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) and Transmit Power Control (TPC). These ensure it doesn’t interfere with weather stations, radars, and military devices.
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Channel 40 would probably be good with and 80Mhz channel width probably.
At least that is what I think you ran into?
Sorry if I am wrong.
