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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...
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 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?
Rikerrock wrote:
Doesn't the nighthawk router allow this?
Yes. But Orbi is not Nighthawk.
Orbi is supposed to be easier to use and lacks some of the manageability of Nighthawk routers.
The Orbi is delivering wifi at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Both are using the same SSID. A 2.4 GHz client will not see the 5 GHz wifi. Quite why Samsung's kit can't cope with that is puzzling. But it is hardly Netgear's fault.