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Can I create a 2.4GHz only guest network?
Don't laugh. Hear me out. I just replaced a 10 year old Airport Extreme with a Netgear Obi RBK50 (with the latest firmware update), and I love it. I gave the Orbi the same SSID and password as the ro...
You can tell what band your iPhone is connected to by looking at the Attached Devices list in the Orbi web interface.
One other thing to try is to manually set your Orbi 2.4 GHz channel to 1, 6, or 11. There's a small chance that Orbi is using a channel the Nokia devices don't support.
st_shaw wrote:
No. You can create separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5 GHz using the approach in this thread.
Thank you. I looked through the thread, and a separate 2.4GHz SSID would be worth a try, but I'd prefer to change only the 2.4GHz SSID of my guest network and not the main network. It wasn't clear from the thread how to do that. I'll keep looking.
My main network is working great with all my other devices, so I don't want to mess around with it if I can avoid it. I've also learned from bitter experience over the years that "non-standard" hacks often disappear with the next firmware update. I'd not worry about screwing up my guest network, which I don't intend to use, but I'd prefer to only change my main network settings via the supported GUI.
As my router is less than a week old, I tried contacting Netgear support about my problem, but whenever I clicked the button to report a problem all I got was a blank page.
You cannot create a 2.4 GHz only guest network, but you can create separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5 GHz using the hack in that thread.
Some devices don't work properly with dual-band systems that have one SSID for 2.4 and 5 GHz.
The following might allow you to setup your devices:
Setup may fail if setup relies on a phone or tablet, and the phone or tablet connects to 5 GHz but the device connects to 2.4 GHz. Temporarily make it so the phone/tablet used for setup cannot connect to 5 Ghz. Turn off all the satelltes, so you have just the router. Reduce 5 GHz transmit power to 25%. Move far enough away from the router that your device and phone/tablet both connect to Orbi on 2.4. Setup your device. Restore Orbi to normal.