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MR60 - How do I split my wireless network into 2.4GHz and 5GHz?
A few weeks back I purchased Nighthawk MR60 for my house and am very pleased withh its functioning. It has both frequencies 2.4 and 5 GHz. When I installed the Skybell for my front door, it automatic...
Talk to the vendor of this magic IoJ wireless dimmer. If the supplied discover and config App does allow to configure the IoJ without nonsense enforced requirement to connect to the 2.4 GHz (the typical problem with many IoJ devices) it's more likely the IoJ device has a problem with the additional bits on air from the WiFi 6 system and/or the system does not like the 802.11k (that what makes up a Mesh device...) data and fails to see or connect.
The ubiquitous nonsense like "How do I split my wireless network into 2.4GHz and 5GHz?" won't help here.
"The ubiquitous nonsense" So you are saying his post was nonsense? Ok can you answer the question another way. Is there a way to show for connection purpose two separate SSID's for 2.4 and 5-Ghz. Hardware Version MR60 and Firmware Version V1.0.6.110_2.0.49.
If you could answer that It would be nice. Can it be done yes or no? If so how? I'm not finding this so ubiquitous.
I would like to determine manually what radio my devices connect to. For this reason, I like to have the 2.4 Ghz band broadcast on one SSID and the 5 Ghz band broadcast another SSID (usually same as 2.4 Ghz but with 5G at the end).
This has been proven to work better time and time again in my home where I would like to force my devices to connect to the 5G network all of the time unless I go way out of 5G range in which case I can simply connect to the standard 2.4 Ghz.
I used to be able to do this with my Orbi AC3000 through Telnet, but then some updated firmware removed that option. Now I would like to still support Netgear and purchase the Netgear MK63 (my house is wired so dual band is fine), but I really do want the ability to give separate SSIDs to my 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz bands.
Is this supported? If not, can we please add it in a future firmware update? Asus does support this, but like I said, I would like to support my local Netgear company, if possible.
Hi, as I understand it from my research the answer is NO, the MK63 can't split the 2.4 and 5 streams. I've got a similar issue. However, the sales blurb on Netgear MK83 suggests that it can.
yet again DongKnows reviewer specialist doesn't think that it will. Does anyone who has a MK83 know?
I tried to get this clarified by Netgear support.............but so far deathly silence.......maybe they don't know either or their sales and technical departments live in different countries and don't communicate too well.
looks like a common FAQ.
