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Orbi and La Crosse weather station
I just switched to an Orbi system and cannot get my La Crosse weather station to connect to the wifi on my app. It says it needs to connect to the 2.4 Ghz... my phone is connected to the 5 Ghz band...
tried everything and as much as i did like the ORBI ... not being able to connect to 5 devices because of the bandwidth issue... had to return it.
I've seen multiple people post on here that their mobile device *must* be on 2.4 GHz to setup these weather stations, because the weather stations only support 2.4 GHz.
First off, this makes abosultely no sense from a technical perspective.
Second, it's directly refuted by La Crosse's own docutmentation:
https://www.lacrossetechnology.com/router_info
From the La Crosse documentation:
- If both of your 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi bands have the same name (SSID) and password, you should not have any problem connecting your weather station regardless of which Wi-Fi network band your smartphone is connected to. If you fall in this category and your station is connected, you will not need to read further. NOTE: Most Mesh Networks (e.g. Google Wifi, Netgear Orbi, Linksys Velop) will likely work in this way. But when first trying to connect your weather station, you'll want to be near and connected to your mesh's central hub for optimal performance.