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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 ...
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.
- That would be an option except my HDMI wireless adapter from MSFT requires the 2.4 radio to be turned on for the WiDi/Miracast. I created a shortcut to the properties on my desk top in the interim.
loomis1975 wrote:
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.I do the same on my laptop and desktop PC and both are working just fine on 5GHz only. Without that setting, they would keep connecting to 2.4.
