Selection of WIFI band

muetzekoeln · September 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM

Please implement a means to manually select the
WIFI band (2.4GHz, 5GHz, both) to use.

I learned this is not yet implemented:
LibreELEC

Thanks in advance!
Christoph

highkick05 · September 19, 2016 at 11:03 AM

how does one select it it normally ?

some of the linux wifi drivers are pretty lame. I get constant drop outs with my netgear AC600 (A6100) AC usb stick

it has had the same issue for about a year, if install windows it seems to act normal

even with the latest apparent "fixes" with the

**chewitt** · September 19, 2016 at 6:33 PM Official Post

muetzekoeln: You can install the network tools add-on which includes 'wireless_tools' and use iwconfig with an autostart.sh script to force changes to the wireless radio configuration after boot. It's hacky and I don't have a nicely typed guide for you to follow, but it can be done.

muetzekoeln · September 26, 2016 at 10:51 AM

Quote from chewitt

... use iwconfig ...

Thanks for the hint. I tried it with iwconfig. Selecting by channel works. Selecting by Access Point address did not work.
No option did offer to choose by wifi band.

So, as long as the 5-GHz channel is not changing this is a work around. Still it is not a long term solution. Access Points
sometimes change their channel usage. This maybe due to manual changes, setting to auto-channel or DFS acting.

**chewitt** · September 26, 2016 at 6:18 PM Official Post

Code

echo "cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=US" > /etc/modprobe.d/cfg80211.conf
reboot

do that, it will be persistent over reboots.