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Chromecast not connecting to 5ghz band
I recently purchase an RB50 setup with 1 satelite. Quite honestly, I’m less than impressed. I’ve had more dropped connections and resets in the last week than 3 years with my nighthawk. Im hopeful to ...
Ok thanks. We moved into a new house which is much bigger (and newer) than our previous home, which is why we went with Orbi. We had similar plaster walls in our previous home, but the new one is more recently constructed to standard drywall/joists.
I enabled all the settings as you have above, and the Chromecast now connects to the 5GHz band.....oddly, the same TV its connected to that was on the 5GHz band before the changes is now on the 2.4 band......ARGGGH
Give it some time to for things to settle down - my devices usually sort themselves out pretty fast, but it may take 30 minutes or longer for the network and devices to all settle in.
Devices usually grab the first routing device and band they "see" (often the router itself, since that tends to boot up first, and often the 2.4 band since that also seems to initially have the farthest reach).
But given a bit of time, devices should eventually settle down on the nearest device (router vs sta) and the best band (2.4 or 5). But that process can take a while, depending on the size and breadth of your overall network... I've heard some folks even recommend waiting a day to let it all settle.
It's kind of like a crowd of people rushing into a room. Yeah, everyone gets in there initially but it's kind of a mess, yet given some time, everyone settles down in their own little space.