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JeriD
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Dec 07, 2019

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...
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JeriD
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Dec 11, 2019

Hi,

 

I went to disable the SSID 5 broadcast and it is not clear that you can do that for the guest network without disabling the 2.4 also. I want all of these bulbs on the guest network for security reasons and I only see one option for disabli/ng the SSID broadcast whereas for the primary network you can disable the two frequencies separetely. Therefore, I assume it disables both on guest? Can someone confirm before I try this? thanks.

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    JeriD
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    Dec 13, 2019

    I will try this over the weekend and report back. Thanks.

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        SW_
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        Dec 13, 2019
        JeriD wrote:

        I followed the instructions at the link provided exactly (https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/ORBI-RBK50-RBS50-Tips-Tricks-Hidden-Secrets-etc/m-p/1835472#M78008) without success. When I connected with my phpne to what was supposed to be the 2.4  guest ssid, it did connect to the guest network but at 5G, not 2.4. Is it possible that on my router (RBR40) wlg0 is the wrong interface to change?

        I don't have RBR40, but you can quickly verify the interface via telnet cmd.

        • config show | grep ssid=*

         

        root@RBR50:/# config show | grep ssid=*
        wla1_ssid=NEST
        wlg1_ssid=NEST24GHz

        You can swap them you see 2 Guest Network SSIDs.

        Good luck!