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Okay, the reason not all the channels are listed. If you select 20MHz wide you'll see all supported channels.
 
Digging this thread up for hopefully the last time. Despite thinking I had mitigated the (what I understand as) malware, it seems to be back. As a quick recap, I've never enabled AiCloud nor enabled access via the WAN. When this thread brought the issue to my attention I changed my router login password to something stronger and this seemed to stop the issue I was seeing. A few weeks later I also changed the login name to something other than admin and made sure to update the firmware to 388.8_4. Things seemed to be going good until recently. Below are screenshots showing the behavior that I think is possibly due to malware. The screenshots show the spike in the last 24 hour activity and the daily values which show outrageously high values not indicative of my usage.

My questions are:
1. Does this look like a malware issue or could it be a router glitch?
2. If malware, would factory resetting and setting up manually rid the router of the malware?

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Router Traffic Monitor glitch.
Thanks for the quick reply! What are your thoughts on the Oct 10-14 values? Coincidence that those high values ended after changing my password? I did also turn off my (very rarely used) OpenVPN server at the same time I changed my password.
 
Thanks for the quick reply! What are your thoughts on the Oct 10-14 values? Coincidence that those high values ended after changing my password? I did also turn off my (very rarely used) OpenVPN server at the same time I changed my password.
Hard to say. Your previously reported symptoms don't sound quite the same as the malware described in this thread.
 

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