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HOW TO DISABLE 5G TEMPORARILY ON ORBI ROUTER
HELLO, I own an Orbi system and recently obtained a Personal Weather station that does direct uploads to various weather sites online. The weather station will only connect to Wi-Fi via a 2.4GHZ sys...
Hi, can i use this method to disable the 5hz band permanently?
I missed this question before, but no - it is not practical to try and use this as a permanent solution. There is some sort of watchdog process on the Orbi which is constantly checking the status of the interfaces, and bringing them back online if they happen to be shut down. This workaround fights against that watchdog, but you really wouldn't want to do that long-term.
ChihSiang wrote:
Hi, can i use this method to disable the 5hz band permanently?