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MarcHChampagne
Guide
Nov 21, 2020
Solved

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...
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    mrdeuceturbo
    Nov 28, 2021

    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.

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pjcesmat
Initiate
Dec 18, 2020

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. 

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DuarteVic
Aspirant
Apr 03, 2021

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.