Disconnecting the antennas on Helix when used as bridge mode

[Packster]

I noticed that the Helix router would still broadcast WIFI on 2.4 and 5Ghz allthough the router was confirgured in "bridge" mode and the WIFI disabled (I confirmed this on the Xfinity forums)

To summarize, even in bridge mode the modem was broadcasting 3 WiFi SSIDs where 3 were broadcasting on 2.4GHz and 2 were broadcasting on 5GHz throughout the house, even though it was in bridge mode

I was able to greatly reduce the RFI emitted by the Helix router by physically disconnecting the six (6) antennas

Here are the link of interest:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast/comments/q3kggx/xb7_disable_wifi_permanently/

https://fccid.io/G954331X/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-4382072.pdf

[GabrielD]

Hello,

Note that while you can do these modifications, this will void the warranty on the gateway.

Thanks,