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Nighthawk mesh MR60 - devices that require 2.4 GHz connection
Please be patient and descriptive in your replies, I pick things up pretty quickly but am far from a network engineer. I upgraded my entire network when the pandemic lockdown started due to my en...
Thank you so much worked for me...I turned off my 2 satellites and went into my garage. I connected all my smart outlets in there.
Hi,
I was having this same problem and have literally been scratching my head over it all day. If you go into your Nighthawk Netgear app and create a guest login. I was able to make my devices which require 2.4ghz to work that way. I am guessing guest logins get assigned to 2.4. I hope that helps.
pjcesmat wrote:Hi,
I was having this same problem and have literally been scratching my head over it all day. If you go into your Nighthawk Netgear app and create a guest login. I was able to make my devices which require 2.4ghz to work that way. I am guessing guest logins get assigned to 2.4. I hope that helps.
pjcesmat Thank you for the reply... Sorry it has taken me so long to circle back.
When you say "If you go into your Nighthawk Netgear app and create a guest login" - how, exactly? I don't see an option for this?
My iPhone uses an app that allows me to connect the "smart" plugs in my house (that are now useless). I would have to connect my iPhone to the 2.4 Ghz "guest" login somehow?
Sorry - again I'm an engineer, just not the right kind for this stuff - but learning fast.
I tried using the guest login and it was still 5GHZ!
pjcesmat wrote:Hi,
I was having this same problem and have literally been scratching my head over it all day. If you go into your Nighthawk Netgear app and create a guest login. I was able to make my devices which require 2.4ghz to work that way. I am guessing guest logins get assigned to 2.4. I hope that helps.