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ditan
Dec 12, 2017Initiate
RBR50 Set up Smart outlets
I can really mess things up because I know just enought to be very dangerous when making changes to my router and network. I am trying to set up ETEKCITY Smart Wi-Fi Outlets. I have downloaded the ...
st_shaw
Dec 13, 2017Master
Take a look at this post by @khad with instructions on how to enable separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5 GHz. That should help you get your device setup. You could restore back to one SSID when you are done so you have seamless roaming of your other devices.
ditan
Dec 14, 2017Initiate
st_shaw....thank you so much. It worked!! I had to turn on telnet client in window featurs and since I am using windows 10, I had to enter the cmd under Windows Powershell(Admin){when you right mouse click on the windows icon at the bottom left you should see the 'Windows Powershell(Admin)}
In orbi you can only have one SSID assigned to wireless. When I completed the process, the wla_ssid was set up with the 5G and the wl_ssid was the 2.4G in my system. In the wireless settings in orbilogin, when I changed to the wla_ssid (5G) none of my 2.4G devices were listed, but when I changed to wl_ssid both the 5G and 2.4G devices were listed, therefore, the final wireless network SSID should be the one assigned to the wl_ssid.
DarrenM did not recommend doing this as orbi was designed to have 1 seamless SSID. Why not recommend this? What problems can happen when having two SSIDs?
Why does Netgear (Orbi) have a dual channel network when it doesn't work without this fix for most of the 2.4G devices?