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RBR50 Set up Smart outlets
I can really mess things up because I know just enought to be very dangerous when making changes to my router and network. I am trying to set up ETEKCITY Smart Wi-Fi Outlets. I have downloaded the ...
Take a look at this post by @khad with instructions on how to enable separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5 GHz. That should help you get your device setup. You could restore back to one SSID when you are done so you have seamless roaming of your other devices.
st_shaw....thank you so much. It worked!! I had to turn on telnet client in window featurs and since I am using windows 10, I had to enter the cmd under Windows Powershell(Admin){when you right mouse click on the windows icon at the bottom left you should see the 'Windows Powershell(Admin)}
In orbi you can only have one SSID assigned to wireless. When I completed the process, the wla_ssid was set up with the 5G and the wl_ssid was the 2.4G in my system. In the wireless settings in orbilogin, when I changed to the wla_ssid (5G) none of my 2.4G devices were listed, but when I changed to wl_ssid both the 5G and 2.4G devices were listed, therefore, the final wireless network SSID should be the one assigned to the wl_ssid.
DarrenM did not recommend doing this as orbi was designed to have 1 seamless SSID. Why not recommend this? What problems can happen when having two SSIDs?
Why does Netgear (Orbi) have a dual channel network when it doesn't work without this fix for most of the 2.4G devices?