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ORBI appears twice in available WiFI on Epson Workforce 545 Printer
I have literally spent 5 hours over the last 2 nights trying to get ORBI set up right. As of now I finally have WiFi in the house, EXCEPT we cannot get the printer on-line. No matter what I name th...
It did not matter which Orbi I selected, the printer would not function. I took the advice and ran an Ethernet cable to the printer and I got it to work. Again I'm not sure what the issue is because if I unplugg satalite problem still exists. So hardwiring is a distasteful but workable solution. Waiting on new Ethernet cable to arrive as need longer.
dono703 wrote:
It did not matter which Orbi I selected, the printer would not function. I took the advice and ran an Ethernet cable to the printer and I got it to work. Again I'm not sure what the issue is because if I unplugg satalite problem still exists. So hardwiring is a distasteful but workable solution. Waiting on new Ethernet cable to arrive as need longer.That's becuase those SSIDs probably aren't router and sat but are the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz wireless on different channels. You might even see a third, that being the hidden backhaul.
Seeing the two entries is quite common in my experience.
With other routers that provide band steering on a single SSID, if you find you have a device that can't handle the steering you would just turn off the single SSID function and give each band a distinct SSID, but Orbi doesn't provide that ability.
Ian
