TX Power on status page for wlan2 reports 0 dBm.

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inetquestion
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 23:24    Post subject: TX Power on status page for wlan2 reports 0 dBm. Reply with quote
Title says it all...
Status=>Wireless->wlan2

Also occurs on the info page.


Router: wrt3200acm
Firmware: r47033

Yes, wlan2 is active and has clients connected to it.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:24    Post subject: Reply with quote
Don't want to sound like a party pooper but it's been repeated 100's of times that WLAN2 is for Radar detection and should not be used as a regular AP. It does work but has no antennas and is very limited. Because it is not a true AP I doubt if you will ever see any improvements to the status.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:34    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interface wlan2 is not meant to have any clients connected, also has no external antennas.

It was only meant to listen for DFS radar detection. Set wireless network mode to disabled.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 19:58    Post subject: Reply with quote
A milliwatt is not a lot of power. I assume your connected devices have to be reaaaaally close to the router.
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inetquestion
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 15:48    Post subject: Reply with quote
WENED wrote:
Don't want to sound like a party pooper but it's been repeated 100's of times that WLAN2 is for Radar detection and should not be used as a regular AP. It does work but has no antennas and is very limited. Because it is not a true AP I doubt if you will ever see any improvements to the status.


That's cool, and thank you. Disabled it and no issues. :)
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