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Separate 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz on Orbi 50 (again)
I have WiFi cameras that require a connection to a 2.4GHz network. (Most do, near as I can tell). They also require the tablet/phone to be on the same network AND also the same speed network. A...
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Thanks for the reply! As I mentioned in a previous post, your suggestion is how I eventually got the camera up.
But my original post was about the problem in general .. not being able to rename a network or disable a network .. with the camera config problem being just one example of why I wanted to. There's other times when this would be handy.
I was kinda wondering if there was an undocumented web page in the router that allowed any extra configuration, in the same way that
http://router.ip.address/debug.htm
offers additional debug info.
Please identify the brand of security camera.
I have three ICsee cameras, two XenoCams, four Chortaus and one Cantok.
All use a different configuration program, and all require a 2.4 GHz network connection for the camera (all the time) AND the tablet (for configuration).
On the surface, it's actually kinda surprising that this shortcoming exists in all the config software. However, three of the cameras are able to use the same config software, so looks aside, the guts may well be the same.
Now, this is, admittedly, a shortcoming in the config software for all these cameras. Why should the camera care what speed the tablet is connected at? But maybe there is a behind the scenes reason; I don't know.
Even so, not being able to pick different names for the networks coupled with the inability to turn off one or the other seems very very strange for what is otherwise a pretty sophisticated device.
Maybe there needs to be a VERY Advanced setup tab, although as the devices are discontinued, I'm not holding my breath for any new functionality. I'm just waiting for the price of WiFi5 mesh devices to crater and then I'll buy something else . But I'll be a whole lot more careful to study the owners manual in advance, which I didn't do this time. It just never occurred to me that the Orbis wouldn't have all the features of my old (old) routers.