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Give back separating 2.4ghz and ghz 5 ssid's!
We got this a few weeks ago, we're pretty happy with everything but the missing features from the Nighthawk product line. Not even having the "option" to separate the 2.4ghz and 5ghz ssid's is a huge...
Is the goal to make the 5GHz SSID "disappear" for short time while a new IoT device is added to the network? Or, is it to make the 2.4G and 5G SSID's permanently different? One of the big draws of mesh systems is that devices will maintain a network connection even if they wander away from their current connection. If my smartphone is connected at 5G and I wander off to the point that the 5G signal is too weak, the phone automatically gets switched to 2.4G (and then back again).
I think we all agree that Netgear could make this whole issue go away by simply implementing a "turn off 5G" switch.
It seems like the point of the mesh is that I "dont" go outside of reasonable 5ghz range while inside the house. When I had them separated before, one a single router, and was doing yardwork I occasionally changed to 2.4ghz manually to keep strong signal at the far reaches of the yard. But I have more access points now anway, and like others note, far too often I see most everything connecting to 2.4 even though my router and satalite are well separated and I have very clear 5ghz bands where I am.
A workaround would almost be to just disable 2.4ghz and use a different router for that, but I dont see that option either.