how to turn of 5GHX radio on the Orbi router

> This is a forum for people looking for ideas to help when something
> isn't listed in a tech doc or manual- it would be nice when posting
> comments if you actually post something useful and not condescending- a
> simple "this will work " or try doing this". Would suffice- otherwise
> why post anything at all....

   Let's review.  You began by asking how to disable the 5GHz radio in
your router, so that you could configure some (still-unidentified) IoJ
gizmo, using some (still-unidentified) app, on some (still-unidentified)
phone.

   I suggested that this was not necessary.  So far as I can tell from
your "I figured it out" message, this was correct.  I also suggested
that you forget about that idea, and "follow the standard
gizmo-configuration procedure", which you apparently did, with some
success.

   I'm very sorry if you found "condescending", my futile attempts to
elicit _any_ useful information at all about what you were doing and
with what you were doing it.  Sadly, the weakness of my psychic powers
makes it difficult to give detailed "this will work" or "try doing this"
advice based on descriptions like "some in home automation devices",
"The manufacturer", "the app", and "my phone".

   Considering that you provided neither clay nor straw, it seems to me
unrealistic to expect not only a load of bricks, but also to get a
stylish parasol built from them.  All in all, I see little reason for
you to complain about the advice which you got.

   When asking for free advice from volunteers, it would be courteous if
the questioner provided some useful information, either spontaneously,
or when asked specifically for it.  If you think that the answers you
got were less than satisfactory, then please try to imagine what it's
like for anyone who might try to be helpful in the face of an
information-free problem report which begins by asking how to implement
some misguided non-solution to the problem, rather than providing any
useful information about the situation.


> The iPhone connection is 5g by default [...]

   I suppose that "The iPhone" is a little better than "my phone".  And,
if Apple made only one model of iPhone, then perhaps I could have
gleaned some useful info from that, if it had appeared some messages
earlier.  But they don't, and it didn't.

> [...] hence the reason I wanted to turn off the 5ghz radio(temporarily)

   Still not necessary, as I suggested originally.  (Did you ever do
that?  Did it help?)


> 1 ) Your Orbi must be setup to broadcast one SSIDs per Band, eg,.
> ketchumr-2.4G on the 2.4G Band & ketchumr-5G on the 5G Band.

   Not really.  The whole gizmo-configuration procedure can be handled
between the gizmo and the phone/tablet which hosts "the app".  The
router is not involved in this operation; the gizmo operates its own
little (2.4GHz) wireless network, and the phone/tablet+app connects to

that.

   Once the user has used the app to transfer the router's normal
wireless credentials to the gizmo, it is restored to its normal mode,
and it connects to the router's wireless network.  At that time, the
2.4GHz-only gizmo will see only the 2.4GHz radio in the router, and the
SSID of any 5GHz radio will be of no interest to the gizmo, because IT'S
A 2.4GHz-ONLY GIZMO!!!  I don't know which part of "2.4GHz-only" is the
tricky part.