Hi @TallBrian,

Sorry, I cannot quite read the numbers in the screen shots you attached.  Are the two EAP's on separate 80MHz wide channels?  For example, here in the USA, there are only two 80MHz wide 5.8GHz channels -- 36 & 149.

If you alternate turning one AP off versus the other, do speeds go back to normal when one is off?  If so, likely channel interference.

-Jonathan

Hi, @JSchnee21 

I forgot to meantion that I'm from the Netherlands. The EAP lets met choose the 36-48 and al other channels are DFS

I haven't tried turning them off 1 by 1 I will try to do that tomorrow.


Zoomed in images. 

I hope these images are better.

-Brian

Hi @TallBrian,

I've been to the Netherlands several times (Oss, Utrecht, Nijmegen, etc.) for work over the years.  It's one of my favorite countries in Europe.  I have lots of former colleagues that work at Pivot Park in Oss.

If you're TallBrian, does that make over 2,0m?

Anyway, to answer your question, assuming all of your clients support the DFS frequencies, you'll need to choose a channel for the second EAP that is at least 80MHz more than the first channel.

So for example, 44 and 60.

-Jonathan

Hi @TallBrian,

One other question.  Is the Wifi on the R7000 turned off?  If not, it would need to be set to yet a third channel 80+ MHz away from the other two.

-Jonathan

Hi @JSchnee21,

I'm glad you like the netherlands we try our best! I haven't been in oss personally that's for us dutchies to long of a drive (2hours) 

Yes it does indeed 2.10m to be precies it was a ease to install the AP's 

I tried to use any of the DFS channels(On multiple devices) none of them worked, I guess that there is way to much radar activity here. Or non of my devices support them 

The wifi of the r7000 is turned off indeed.

Hi @TallBrian,

Here's hoping my two sons break 6 feet. . .  I never did :-(  

If you're not able to use the DFS channels, you have two choices to experiment with:

1) Use the same channel for both and turn down the AP transmit power to Medium or so.  AP's on the exact same channel will take turns and generally co-exist better than AP's on slightly adjacent but overlapping channels.  You may need to force the BW to be 80MHz rather than 20/40/80.  This option should give you the fastest speeds if you have only a handful of active Wifi clients at a time.

2) Alternatively, you could force each AP to use 40MHz wide channels, and then choose two of the non-DFS channels whose frequencies differ by 40MHz or more.This is the better option if you have a lot of active wireless clients at a time.  But the speed for each client will be slower due to the 40MHz limitation.

Here in the USA, most modern Wifi clients are supporting DFS channels these days, and we usually do not have much interference.  But, many access points here (including the EAP225 and 245) do not support the US DFS channels frequencies so they are still not much of an option.

-Jonathan

hi @JSchnee21 and @R1D2 

First of all thank you for trying and helping me to find a solution to my problems.

i've tested them seperatly and both still stayed at 270Mbps, i've done some wifi analyzer test around my house even outside and did see a lot of ****(Hidden) streams in the area that I was unable to see with my Phone analyzer I guess my phone (Samsung s9) or the app that I used "Wifi analyzer" doesn't show them al. chaning the channels didn't do a lot

Using the 40Mhz bands I was only able to get 180Mbps. I then tried to connect to channel 52 after awhile I did manage to connect to channel 52 it took a while before the AP started to actually broadcast. But still this didn't have any effects on the speeds The one downstairs was set to 36 and the one upstairs set to 52 both still stayed at there 270Mbps.

The only devices that didn't support those frequencies where my smart bulbs but thats expected


I did notice that after changing the settings and testing al diffrent methods the EAP started to struggle with broadcasting in general the 2,4Ghz bands didn't go higher then 20Mbps where 100 was the speed before chaning anything. The "reboot device" option didn't change that nor did the  "reset to factory defaults". I then tried to uplug but that didn't have any effect as well  I had to hard reset the EAP to get it back to the 100Mbps. 

-Brian