MK63S satellites not broadcasting 2.4g

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Bradley812 wrote:

I was told by the guy who hooked everything up that it's because the satellites are not broadcasting the 2.4g band.  

 

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Sadly, technicians have a habit of passing the buck and blaming the router. In this case, it is almost certainly balderdash. You have to work hard to get a router to not broadcast 2.4 Hz wifi.

What is more likely is that they didn't realise that the MK60R and MK60S both broadcast the wifi with a single SSID, that covers both bands. IoT devices are mostly on 2.4 GHz but the twerps who write the apps to set them up are not capable of writing software that can see that they are dealing with a "Smart" or Mesh wifi source.

You don't say what these IoT things are, but I can thinnkl of a couple of options.

First see if you can force your mobile device, the one you are using, to set up the IoT things, to connect to the 2.4 GHz wifi. (One way to do that is to move out of range of the 5 GHz wifi, which doesn't travel so far.)

Another option would be Ideally, turning off the 5 GHz wifi, but I don't see that option on my router. (A newer version of the MK range.)

Maybe you could temporarily set the router to use separate SSIDs for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz

In settings:

• Basic
• Customize WiFi Network
• Customize Your WiFi-Create a separate 5 GHz WiFi network
• Disable Enable SSID broadcast

Set things up then go back and reverse those changes.

Then tell the people who made thee IoToys to get their act together.