Feature Request: 5GHz DFS Channel Support
Can you guys release a product that supports all available 5GHz channels? Not supporting DFS channels forces your users to stack their 5GHz signals on top of our neighbors, causing serious interferen...
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This needs to become a thing, I live in an apartment complex, and there are far too many 5ghz networks around, as well as my internet connection coming in, is operating wireless on a Ubiquity Prism 5, using uni 3 for a clean connection. Uni1 is completely used, which only leaves DFS as the cleanest channels, and Roku doesn't support DFS. This is a HUGE overlook by Roku. Every device I own supports DFS, but not my Roku. I am forced to partially overlap my internet connections frequency, which almost cuts it's throughout by half at times.
And the lack of any official Roku answers, aren't leaving me with any hope for a fix. No explanation why from Roku wherever you look, just alot of posts about people asking and complaining about the this very issue. You need to answer your customers!
Codel wrote:No explanation why from Roku wherever you look (...)
The reason is simple - Roku's remotes are WiFi. In such case the base station is a WiFi client to get Internet connection as well as an access point for the remote. As all WiFi chipsets can really only work on one channel at the time Roku is forced to serve remotes on the same frequency as the WiFi connection to the router.
The catch here is FCC mandates that to transmit on DFS frequency you have to do either of two:
- Be a client and receive a beacon from the AP
- Be an AP and scan for radar for 10 minutes before enabling the radioAs the Roku base station is actually both they will have to wait ten minutes after every reboot to connect to the remote... which is not gonna fly.
Yes, please add DFS channel support.
Bumping this!
Switching to a none DFS channel impedes my performance hugely. :(
The wait time, known as the Channel Availability Check, is 1 minute not 10 minutes, except for channels 120, 124 & 128 but only in some countries, eg Europe. I agree that having to wait 1 minute before the remote works or the Roku can connect to the network could be annoying, but I think that having the _option_ to enable the DFS channels with an appropriate warning about the delay would be helpful.
When I revamped my home network with APs that supported DFS channels, I moved my Rokus to wired connections as a workaround.
