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Rikerrock
Apr 27, 2019Tutor
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...
michaelkenward
Apr 28, 2019Guru - Experienced User
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
- RikerrockApr 28, 2019Tutor
Thanks
Seems like Netgear could easily fix this.
- michaelkenwardApr 28, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Or Samsung?
It made the stuff that does not know what to do when it sees SSIDs.
- RikerrockApr 28, 2019Tutor
My old open mesh system allowed me to create up to 4 ssids and choose which bands each could have 2.4 or 5 or both. I created one for just samsung robovac. Would be a nice feature on the orbi. But agree, samsung could fix too. Doesn't the nighthawk router allow this?