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Forcing Guest SSID to be 2.4
Hi - I have seens lots of posts to talk about how you can manually go into debug mode and setup separate SSID's for various purposes. However, I've been unable to force my Guest network to only suppo...
Note to JeriD, as CrimpOn says, disabling the 5 GHz temporarily SSID is reckoned to be the easiest and most reliable way of dealing with these IoT devices whose developers don't know what they are up to. Lots of satisfied customers have reported success with this strategy.
When you have done it, please complain to the people who made your life difficult by writing half-baked installation apps. They need to know that it is time to enter the 21st century.
Thanks for all of the replies. If disabling the 5 Gz SSID broadcast works, that will be the simplest thing by far. I will try that once my next bulb comes in and update the thread. As to the comment about "please complain to the people who made your life difficult by writing half-baked installation apps. They need to know that it is time to enter the 21st century.", while I completely agree, I also think it would be an easy solution for other scenarios I can come up with for Netgear to provide a simple toggle in the setup screen that allows (independently for the main network and the guest network) to have choices of 2.4/5/both with the default recommended setting being both. Is there a down side to that?