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Genie Network Map -- blue / purple lines?
We have an R7000 Nighthawk router, and although we have 6-8 wifi devices in our home, we do want to minimize wifi signals as much as possible to mitigate any possible health risks, such as not having...
The dashed lines indicate wireless connections, while solid lines are wired connections.
Exception: If you have an access point wired to the router, wireless clients connected to the access point are shown with solid lines when looking at the map from the router side. But if you log in to the access point (my access point is also an R7000) and look at the map, they will be dashed, while wireless clients on the router side would be solid lines.
Green lines (as far as I can see on my maps) are from the device you are using and from the router to the internet.
Pluto8 thanks for the info. I have not found a definition for Blue/purple lines. Can you or anyone else help?
crsmith wrote:Pluto8 thanks for the info. I have not found a definition for Blue/purple lines. Can you or anyone else help?
Anything different from the green ones (explained above) is blue/purple.
Updated Genie App on iOS and Android has already chanved this not very meaningful colour scheme - all white lines on blue background. Convinced the Windows/macOS Genie will follow soon.
