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Orbi and Samsung Robovac can only do 2.4ghz
I have a orbi system I bought from costco to replace an open mesh system because I needed some more parental controls etc. The open mesh allowed me to assign several ssids (up to four) and choose if I want 2.4ghz or 5.0ghz or both. The only way I was able to get my samsung wifi robovac to work was to setup a separate 2.4ghz ssid. With the orbi I have no idea if this can be done. I know 2.4ghz orbi is being sent out but for some reason the samsung robovac can't find the network.
Any suggestions
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Fortunately, you are not the first person to ask about this. Indeed, it comes up often, which is why the forum suggested this link:
Solved: Re: Switch from 5ghz to 2.4ghz - NETGEAR Communities
If that does not do it for you, then there are plenty more where that came from. For example:
Separate 2.4GHz and 5GHz- Orbi RBR50 - NETGEAR Communities
Thanks
Seems like Netgear could easily fix this.
Or Samsung?
It made the stuff that does not know what to do when it sees SSIDs.
My Samsung Robovac had no problem connecting to my Orbi. Just make sure it's close to the base station when you're setting it up.
Which robovac? I've got a satelite about 15 ft from the vac and a total of 5 orbi units in my house. Is it poss that I have too many orbi's?
The vac can find the ssid?
Maybe the "base station" bit that SimonBelgium mentioned is the key to it.
Users can temporatily disable the 5Ghz SSID Under Advanced Tab/Advanced Settings/Wireless Settings on the RBR while they get there 2.4Ghz devices connected to Orbil. Afterwards, just re-enabled the 5Ghz SSID.
