Can I change my home broadband channel?

[anotheruser]

Hello!

I've got the big square Vodafone hub and recently moved into a little neighborhood. Sometimes my wifi drops to significantly low speeds, particularly at night time and whenever I check it's aligns with the channel overlapping a lot of others. For some reason my router is selecting channel 9 whereas all the VM and SKY routers in the area seem to mostly behave in their respectful 1, 6 and 11 lanes. 

Having used a wifi analyzer for a while I can see that channel 6 is begging for more routers to choose it, but I can't see any way to do this in the router?

Please can anyone help me? Seems like I'm missing something obvious here

[Cynric]

@dclyall  I would think that the router will change the channel fairly soon afterwards.

[Jayach]

Nope, in my experience it stays set (just like it did when we were able to do it via the router setup) until the router is factory reset.

[dclyall]

No, it stays set to the channel you want. 

I had to do mine as the auto option was selecting channel 1 which is fine inside the house but I have a printer and thermostat in my conservatory which also sees someone else's channel 1 wifi so the thermostat tends to lose its connection unless I change the channel

[stevie_b1]

I'm having the same trouble as others on here.... I've had agreement with my neighbours which channels they will use, and which I should use, but whilst they can change their routers to stick to a channel of their chosing, I cannot.

I'm facing issues with the magic smartness on the WiFi Hub Router that is not so smart.

Are Vodafone saying I have to download this app from APKcombo? It flags as a "suspicious" website on my browser. What are Voda playing at ?

They need a proper fix ? Not only is this frustrating, my neighbours are joking about my broadband choice (I dont know whats worse ! They are all bad!!)

[billhinge]

My experience is different, I. think its a great router. I get 990Mbs downloads plus my WiFi is 2400Mbs. Seems reliable. I could spend £200+ on a fancy third party router but would I get better performance? If it ain't broke don't fix it. Appreciate you may have a different experience but when it works its a good bit of kit.

[stevie_b1]

OK - thats great for you, but back to my question, it still sounds like Voda still arent dealing with the many others who cannot set channel and stop the router hunting for channels / doing channel hoping. 

[billhinge]

The point I was trying to make is that in some conditions the router will work perfectly. The question is what is it about other situations such as yours that makes it misbehave. Software works as designed unless it meets conditions that it is not configured to deal with

[Jayach]

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@stevie_b1 wrote:
it still sounds like Voda still arent dealing with the many others who cannot set channel and stop the router hunting for channels / doing channel hoping. 

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Vodafone, wrongly or rightly, have decided they don't want us to have the ability to set the channels our routers use.

I really don't think they will change their stance.

Just which router do you have, and is it the 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz band you wish to set?

[Cynric]

I suspect that for the majority of the customers the router works for their needs. It's when someone wants to do something a bit more technical when the issues surface. The thing is that the majority are more than 90 percent and it's just not economic to worry about the others.

[stevie_b1]

Yeah - They probably should just go the whole way and prevent users from logging into the router. As I say - Expert Mode seems to be limited anyway.