You could consider wifi6e; the 6GHz band probably isn't too noisy, for now.

kccqzy · 2023-07-17T02:57:06

In fact in my experience switching to DFS 5GHz channels would already make things much better. Many cheap access points don't support them at all.

withinboredom · 2023-07-17T05:00:35

Until you get that radar sweep that cuts off your wifi for 30s.

kccqzy · 2023-07-17T05:40:49

Depending on where you are, you might never get that.

withinboredom · 2023-07-17T13:55:03

If you're anywhere within ~150km of an airport with radar, you will likely get hits on certain days (due to atmospheric lensing).

kccqzy · 2023-07-17T17:54:47

Not just any airport but only airports with TDWR.

(There are none on the west coast: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_TDWR.svg)

And then more rarely, certain military airports.

haswell · 2023-07-17T15:45:22

I’m in Chicago under an approach path to O’Hare, and Midway airport is within that range as well.

leonidasv · 2023-07-17T04:15:32

I have the same problem here and I'm considering buying a 6GHz tri-band (2.4 + 5 + 6GHz) Wi-Fi 6E router. Problem is: the only ones I can find are "gamer" routers bloated with features I will never use and priced 5x to 10x a regular Wi-Fi 6 (without the "E") dual band (2.4 + 5GHz) router.

Both my phone and computer supports 6GHz, but it's still hard to find a reasonably priced router.

withinboredom · 2023-07-17T05:01:50

You can usually find them lightly used on eBay or Craigslist (or country equivalent). Then just flash it with DD-wrt or openwrt.

shoyer · 2023-07-17T07:07:23

Not sure if $199 is reasonably priced in your opinion, but the Nest Wifi Pro supports 6E.

oynqr · 2023-07-17T05:15:12

I was going to suggest the Banana Pi BPI-R3, but that still doesn't have 6 GHz. The successor to that one is going to have Wifi 7, but might not get supported by mainline OpenWRT.