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Disable wireless radios RBK50
Hi,
A question regarding the Orbi systems.
Is it possible to disable the user faced 2.4ghz/5ghz wireless radios in either the router base or the satellite and the backhaul stay intact?
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xtract wrote:
Is it possible to disable the user faced 2.4ghz/5ghz wireless radios in either the router base or the satellite and the backhaul stay intact?
I have not done this myself. There is a description in the forum of how to disable radios:
Good Luck!
xtract wrote:
Is it possible to disable the user faced 2.4ghz/5ghz wireless radios in either the router base or the satellite and the backhaul stay intact?
I have not done this myself. There is a description in the forum of how to disable radios:
Good Luck!
very nice! thank you...and this leaves the backhaul intact, correct?
As far as I know, having not done this myself. The key is the interface names. ekhalil wrote up an excellent description of all the radio names: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Understanding-Orbi-Radio-Fronthaul-Backhaul/m-p/1671092
Dern...I've found I cannot really find a way to actually disable the 2.4ghz radio on the RBR50 only and allow the satellite only push 2.4ghz. I can run the command "ifconfig ath0 down" via telnet on the RBR50 and that basically stops devices from using it's 2.4ghz radio (pushing them all to the satellite but 1 or 2 devices), but I can see from a network scan that it is, in fact, still broadcasting the network with that radio, as I can see 2 instances of my network on the 2.4ghz spectrum with one being @ -20dB while in the same room with the RBR50, so I know it is. :(