40Mhz Profile on 2.4Ghz

[lentz]

Hi,

I'm trying to change a 2.4 Ghz n/g Profile to 40Mhz in HiveManager but it doesn't offer me the 40Mhz options, just 20Mhz. That doesnt seem right to me. What else can I do to switch to 40Mhz?

Kind regards

[lentz]

What you wrote might be accurate for whereever you are located but there are countries where you are allowed to use Channel 13, allowing 2 non-overlapping 40Mhz channels. In that case running 40Mhz Channels is something you should at least consider, and as the building where I am using the access point only needs one access point on each floor it's working great with even floors on 1+above and odd floors on 13+below. Not being able to do this for whatever reason someone might come up with is rather stupid to me and makes me glad I only have one access point that's trying to tell me what I should/shouldnt do. I still hope that someone who is responsible will read this and fix this bug (or however you want to call it) cause other than that the hardware and management is great.

[ashley_finch]

Unless you've got only 1 AP and no other APs anywhere near then maybe you'd want to enable this, but otherwise it's a bad idea and hence why this option is probably not available. By making a 40MHz channel on the 2.4GHz you'd only have 1 non overlapping channel and therefore if you had multiple APs the performance would likely be much worse than using 3 non-overlapping 20MHz channels.

Enabling it on the 5GHz would be okay though as there are many more non-overlapping channels available.