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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...
I still haven't had any luck with Whirlpool on this. They say they've changed some things on their back end and want me to try connecting both the appliance and my iPhone to the same 2.4GHz network, which I told them I'd do.
Is there a limit to the number of seconds the 5GHz network can be turned off? Your example shows it how to disable it for 300 seconds, but I suspect I'll need to use a much larger number, as Whirlpool wants me to call them after I've disabled the 5GHz radio.
Yes, you can increase the number of seconds to something larger if need be.
Thanks. I went ahead and entered 1200 as the timeout setting, and it took it.
After setting this, I was on the phone with Whirlpool, as they felt it should work fine since both my iPhone and appliance were now on the same 2.4GHz band. (As I thought might happen, I had to run the Telnet script again while I was on the phone, as it had timed out after 1200 seconds).
Unfortunately, the setup fails (as it ALWAYS has) at the last step, where it has my phone connect to the appliance's WiFi network. And at this point (as ALWAYS) my phone displays a notice saying it's unable to join the applicance's network.
Whirlpool told me they will update my ticket and let their developer(s?) know it still doesn't work.
I have a sinking feeling this applicance will NEVER work with the Orbi system!