NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
disable 2.4ghz on orbi
HELLO latest softwear 2 orbs less than 30 feet apart signal strength good etc. slight issues with the orbi currently, 1. 2.4ghz is enabled and i want to disable it 2. im finding that dev...
yafai1 wrote:HELLO
latest softwear 2 orbs less than 30 feet apart signal strength good etc.
slight issues with the orbi currently,
1. 2.4ghz is enabled and i want to disable it
Did you ever mention WHY you want to disable the 2.4 band?
Perhaps if you did, the fix would be much more evident.
- Well smart arse it's in this thread read the **bleep**ing thing before u turn all smart on us. Tired of the same old dumb replies.
yafai1 wrote:
Well smart arse it's in this thread read the **bleep**ing thing before u turn all smart on us. Tired of the same old dumb replies.2. im finding that devices are not connecting to the closer orbi .
If this is your reason.....it's NOT. How devices connect is all about how the Orbi and the Mesh system works. What's wrong with that? If you're worried about SPEED, you're chasing rabbits.
OBTW....we're all adults here. You can use civil and respectable language. Thanks
- vaj you should practice what you preach!!!
:smileyhappy:One might want do disable 2.4 GHz so they simply always use 5 GHz. :smileyhappy: Is not that reason enough?
PittsSC1 wrote:One might want do disable 2.4 GHz so they simply always use 5 GHz.: Is not that reason enough?
Of course it's a good reason. Someone might want (a) to be unable to connect any of the "Internet of Things" devices that only support 2.4G, (b) to have their WiFi signal drop out when they wander too far for 5G to penetrate while 2.4G would keep them on-line. Netgear could have made discussions like this unnecessary if they had simply added a check box, "Turn off radio" for each band. :smileylol:
- You can’t disable the 2.4 radio but you could rename the 5G band to something else. Then have your devices forget the 2.4G info and login into the 5G. The instructions are here on the forum, telnet into the router it’s pretty simple to do.
