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Separate SSDI
Is there a way to have seperate SSDI to see that band my devices are connected to?
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Does it matter? Wireless clients connect to the best radio available unless it's heavily overloaded (number of clients, bandwidth). Neighbour (router or satellite) radio information is shared over the network by the RRM and visible to smart clients, fast roaming allowing smooth hand-over even with VoIP calls ongoing is available, too.
Just to see the details where and how a client device is associated to, go the Connected Device List, and click on (i) to the left.
Yes it does matter. With my old router I had a seperate password only for 5Ghz. IT was ONLY used for my work. This way the 5Ghz network was jammed up with other users. BTW i'm using the Orbi in bridge mode.
Well, that's an outdated model of resource sharing I'm afraid - my network cable, all the others network cable. This model was already overdue when your old router was designed, and has enforced different SSID for each radio. Times have changed, in fact the related standards exist for much longer, most of the consumer routers were behind much to long why ever (with Netgear hanging back far to long). Today, the control belongs to the network. And the coming-up 802.11ax is once much more going away from the "best throughput" thinking to a much more economic and optimised sharing of the radio resources on the very limited frequency bands.
Netgear is perfectly right - it took a while to convince them - to push what they name "SmartConnect" on routers, and allowing one network name by security zone/IP subnet. Different SSID are used to connect to different security zones, different VLANs. And not for the I-want-to-plug-my-device-to-that-specific-radio.
