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ChuckieCheese
Jan 28, 2017Luminary
Orbi: We really need separate SSID for 2.4 Ghz and 5Ghz or speed is limited to less than 200 Mbps
TLDR: With Orbi, my 5Ghz capable devices are "forced" to connect to 2.4 Ghz most of the time, slowing down speed. Tested against 3 different routers and my 5Ghz capable can connect to 5Ghz network al...
anschmid
Jan 30, 2017Apprentice
Separate SSID for 2.4 and 5GHz channel. I remeber this one. Back in the days when larger hardisk came out everybody had to partition their super large disk into an operation system partition, a data partition and a few other partition as we just couldn't comprehend having so much space and we needed to be able to tell what data was going where of course. As we all know this ended after a while when we ran into problems that we had heaps of space in our data partition but our operating system partition was full to the brink and we had to completely format the hardisk to change it all around.
- ChuckieCheeseJan 30, 2017Luminary
SSID separation is obsolete, though. It's still being used today and most of wireless router/AP support this today.
You are comparing apple and orange between SSID separation and HDD partition.