R6800 Transmission Power max 6dBm

[cowens005]

Hello Borromini

I'm very new to this and I'm unfamiliar with compiling do you think I would be safe applying the image from this thread?

Netgear R6850: very low transmit power on 5GHz

Hello! I have been using snapshot installations of Openwrt on my Netgear R6850 for a while (currently: r16160-da339a6d3f). It mostly works fine with 2,4Ghz (transmit power: 20dBm), but with 5Ghz the transmit power maximum is 6dBm, which means that devices connect to another AP at a greater distance. Changing country setting does not affect the transmit power. Any ideas of how to fix this? So far, only two things have crossed my path when searching for answers, and I need advice on this, or othe…