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sundaramesh
Follower
Jun 10, 2020

Nighthawk MR60 Mesh WiFi 6 system - Connection to 5 GHz

I have recently installed the Nighthawk MR60 Mesh WiFi 6 system with 2 Satellite at home. The home devices that operate on 2.4 GHz has no problem in identifying the network and connects. The issue I h...
Christian_R's avatar
Christian_R
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 12, 2020

Hello sundaramesh,

 

Ultimately, your devices will decide which band to connect to based off of the best strength/signal.

 

Christian 

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rickggaribay
Initiate
Oct 02, 2020
Christian_R wrote:

Hello sundaramesh,

 

Ultimately, your devices will decide which band to connect to based off of the best strength/signal.

 

Christian 


Sorry, but this not an acceptable answer. Since the router does not allow unique SSIDs for each band, there needs to be a way to "block" the device from connecting to an inferior 2.4 channel when I am running WiFi 6 with 1Gbps down. In this case, its for an XBOX and 40 to 60 Mbps is not going to cut it. Please provide a way to do this or provide customers the ability to define separate SSIDs.