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HOW TO DISABLE 5G TEMPORARILY ON ORBI ROUTER
HELLO, I own an Orbi system and recently obtained a Personal Weather station that does direct uploads to various weather sites online. The weather station will only connect to Wi-Fi via a 2.4GHZ sys...
Rcameron17 wrote:
Cant thank you enough for attempting to help.
When i get into terminal and type, "telnet 168.192.1.1" (this is my same ip) get the following error:
" -bash: telnet: command not found"
OK. Apparently, Apple decided to delete telnet on the latest versions of OSX. Fortunately, I know a workaround. Use the netcat command and instruct it to use the telnet port 23.
Instead of telnet 192.168.1.1 use the following command:
nc 192.168.1.1 23
I cannot thank you enough. It is a shame they don't make this available through the GUI. I have some smart outlets that can only connect to 2.4ghz and require my phone to be on the same band for setup. I don't have any phones that don't connect to 5ghz and I was completely stuck until I found your telnet advice.