RBR50/RBS50/RBSS50Y - Auto/manually setting wifi's devices' preferred SSID IP addresses needed!

Ekhalil: Thanks for your thoughtful response, 

With the introducton of mesh-based networking, where the same SSID is used throughout the network across multiple devices (the main router and its satellites), mesh-based networks simply have to have a minimum amount of administrative controls necessary to prevent absurd (weak/extremely slow) wifi connections. Without ths basic wifi connection management capability, much of the advantages of using a mesh-based network is defeated.

If Netgear's Orbi system does not have the ability to manage the router/satellite wifi devices' connect to, then why do (some) wifi devices on my network sometimes switch to another Orbi router/satellite with the same SSID after a few days?

Subject to wifi devices' roaming-related constraints, any centralized - and reliable - approach to managing wifi devices' wifi connections would suffice. For example, can Netgear's centralized and web-accessible administrative user interface be enhanced to either:

1. Provide wifi administrators with the ability to add a list of excluded/ignored wifi devices (e.g. by MAC address?) to each router/satellite so that, when a wifi device attempts to connect to an inappropriate router/satellite that uses the same SSID, but has a poor signal and/or connection speed, that the specified router/satellite simply ignores the connection request, thus allowing the closer/faster wifi device to connect to a router/satellite with a stronger/faster signal?

2. Redirect the wifi device's weak/slow connection request to a router/satellite to another user-specified wifi device that is more appropriate?

While Netgear may not have full control over wifi devices' roaming processes, it would seem that a centralized method for managing this is both possible and essential.

I will be curious what you and others' responses are.

Thanks again.