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Need able to assign device stay 5ghz
I just purchased the orbi yesterday. Like the idea of merge 2 band into one name. But my lg tv sometime switch to 2.4ghz and makes 4k streamming not working. Some device like google home mini next to ...
This is purely anecdotal, but I noticed some of my devices occasionally find themselves on a 2.4Ghz network instead of 5Ghz even if I'd have a closer satellite available.
It would be great if there was a way to "incentivize" clients to switch to the best and closest 5Ghz and use 2.4Ghz only when no better option exists.
Personal opinion is that Orbi is better than a regular extender, but isn't a refined system at this point.
It would be great if there was a way to "incentivize" clients to switch to the best and closest 5Ghz and use 2.4Ghz only when no better option exists.
Personal opinion is that Orbi is better than a regular extender, but isn't a refined system at this point.
Right now, I think one of the only things you can do for this situation is adjust the 2.4ghz transmit power level down 1 or 2 steps. It's not a cure all, but it might help. I too wish you could reserve which band to use, just like you can reserve ip address.
loomis1975 wrote:
I too wish you could reserve which band to use, just like you can reserve ip address.I 2nd that request. It would be really beneficial for fixed-location devices that should always be able to connect to the same band.
Just set this up today, on my old router I had separate 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz networks, looks like I will have to do that here. I have a MacBook air on 5 G right next to my Surface Book 2 that I am typing this on, inches from each other, and the SB2 defaults to 2.4 which also never goes about 20 Mbps. The 5 Ghz gets up to 80 Mbps, which is just shy of my connection. This is highly annoying.
- I ran into a similar problem with my work ultrabook Win10 which has an Intel ac 8265 wifi chipset. Since I couldn't fix it on the orbi end, I went into device manager and under advanced tab, changed preferred band to 5.2 ghz from no preference and roaming aggressiveness to medium-high from medium. This seems to be working for me, but would sure be nice to just force it on orbi end.