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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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