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How to deactivate 5GHz or get a different SSID for it?
Hi all Netgear users out there, I have Netgear routers since the very beginning of WLAN and most of the devices were just great. With Orbi its quite different - the poeple who defined the key pa...
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A solution that has worked for others is to temporarily power off the Netgear WiFi system and use a smartphone to create a WiFi Hot Spot with exactly the same WiFi credentials as the Netgear system. Then use a separate smartphone to set up the Internet of Things (IoT) device.
Verizon was offering so little for trade in that I have kept the last four cell phones I bought. My newest cell phone (2020) creates a WiFi Hot Spot in the 2.4G band. I connect the previous cell phone to it and go through the setup.
Once the IoT device has learned the WiFi credentials, power down the Hot Spot and restart the regular WiFi system.