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Connecting cheap Obit router to my Orbi mesh (RBR750)
In order to use GE’s so call smart app for my new washer & dryer, it needs the least security options on the router. Rather the open my network to anyone, I bought a cheap router from Amazon - an Obit N300. Turns out Cox won’t let me (for free) connect that router to the second Ethernet port of the modem.
So, can I connect the Obit to the Orbi so the Obit has its own network?
WPA2 and AES/PSK is preferred for most wifi devices. Newer devices should be already supporting of it. Older devices, WPA/TPIK would have been more supported however was compromised and succeeded by WPA2 and AES.
Select the mode that your IoT devices seem to required and use. Contact the IoT Mfr about this as well.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things
Kind of a general term for many client devices that connect to a wifi router system and provides connections to and from the internet and remotely.
There is mixed WPA2 and WPA3 modes now in v7 FW. Something NG had put in a couple of years ago but had to take back out as the WPA3 mode was causing problems. All fixed now so if you have any newer generation devices like phones or pads or wifi adapters that support WPA3, these devices can use WPA3 while in mixed mode. It's not recommended to set WPA3 only on the main wireless network as there is still some older and current generation devices that do no support WPA3 security mode. Contact your devices Mfr for information regarding what there devices support in this regard.
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Certainly
so, no solution.
Please include a link to the WiFi setup instructions for this GE application. "least security options" does not provide much detail about the problem. Unless these GE appliances include very old WiFi products, it is a bit of a stretch that GE would require less security than the hundreds of inexpensive Internet of Things products now on the market.
The Dbit (not Obit) N300 on Amazon does not provide a link to the User Manual. I would think that this strategy would be sufficient:
- Set up the Dbit on a 2.4G WiFi channel far away from the Orbi system 2.4G channel.
- Give the Dbit WiFi a complicated password that would take a billion years to crack. (It has to be entered only one time.)
- See if there is a feature on the Dbit to control access by hardware MAC address. This will allow only the designated GE appliance WiFi to connect.
Seems like a "solution" to me.
