Linksys E4200 is not channel bonding [ Edited ]

[dkjohn]

I have been trying for weeks to figure out why my linksys E4200 would not do 300 mbps I think I came up with the answer the firmware is not allowing it to channel bond on the 2.4ghz channel  in my old 160n when I change the channel width to 20 to 40mhz it shows 40mhz only in the status of the router in the E4200 it shows 20mhz only is this a firmware problem and how do you inform linksys of it there tech support is pretty much useless.

[Casablanca]

dkjohn - sorry I do not have an answer.  I started a similar thread yesterday titled E4200 2.4G 40mhz bandwidth issues, no responses yet.  I can get channel bonding using channel 6, or auto which gives me channel 6, no other channels will bond.  When bonded the channels are 6 & 2.  Unfortunately after 4 minutes of either laptop being booted up, The router drops from 40 mhz to 20 mhz and the channels report 6 & 0.  If I have no wireless PC's on the router will stay at 40 mhz and channels 6 & 2 "forever".  Not sure if this is firmware or a defective router.

[sabretooth]

Channel bonding may reduce your throughput anyway,...

Read here..

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-basics/30664-5-ways-to-fix-slow-80211n-speed

[dkjohn]

I know I thought my E3000 was broken now I know its a firmware problem maybe we can get someone at Linksys to take note. Can anyone else chime in and confirm our finding.

[dkjohn]

So you are saying just accept the fact that its broke and be happy are you sure you don't work for cisco if I want to not use channel bonding I can chose to set it at 20 mhz only.

[dkjohn]

By the way I cannot get the e4200 to channel bond on any channel with the e3000 channel 6 worked as long as I did not cut my computer off if I did I would have to reboot the router to get it to get back to 300 mbps.

[gandalf]

It might be the problem with the Firmware of the router. Did you try to reset the router and reconfigure it?

I think we have to wait for the new firmware release.

[dkjohn]

I did that to no avail several times

[great_white]

As i have mentioned previously i think you need to wait till linksys releases new firmware for this router. Or else you can replace this router.