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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...
OK... this thread was very useful and I don't know if I could have succeeded without it... I have finally been able to get my La Crosse weather station connected to my orbi using a macbook. Thanks all!
I did find some minor simplifications to avoid using the numerical IP address of the router... namely, replace the numbers with orbilogin.com. So, here are my notes as gleaned from the thread above and followed in my situation.:
| 1 | Power off the satellites. | |
| 2 | Go to: | http://orbilogin.com/debug.htm |
| 3 | Check "Enable Telnet" | |
| 4 | Open the Terminal application on the MAC | |
| 5 | nc orbilogin.com 23 | |
| 6 | Enter your Orbi router username (admin) and your password at the prompts. (admin/password is the default) | |
| 7 | Paste the following in to disable 5G for a set amount of seconds. This is 300 for now (5 minutes). | |
| seconds=300; x=0; while [ $x -lt $seconds ]; do ip link set down dev $(config get wl5g_NORMAL_AP); x=$(( x + 1 )); echo "down $x"; sleep 1; done | ||
| 8 | Use "Weather Connect" to pair your station. You have 5 minutes if you used the nc (telnet) command above. | |
| 9 | Go to: | http://orbilogin.com/debug.htm |
| 10 | UnCheck "Enable Telnet" | |
| 11 | Power on the satellites. | |
Thank you so much! After an hour trying to find the answer, I now have my La Crosse wifi projection clock working too!