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Manually setting up 2.4GHz and 5GHz for Orbi RBS850/ RBK850
Hi,
So due to the environment of this place, I often screen mirror my phone onto the TV for shows and other things. Unfortunately, my TV only connects on 2.4GHz while my smart devices are all on 5.0GHz.
The advice by Netgear was to walk far away from the router (leaving my apt) to activate it every time I want to mirror. There has to be a smarter way to do this!
1. If smart connect works, please tell me how to do this, because from my current point of view, this is the most idiotic design Netgear has ever done since it does not really work!
2. If I cannot connect "smartly," does anyone have a workaround to do this. I'm not leaving my house to screen mirror! Ugh!
Thank you in advance.
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Rainydaya wrote:So due to the environment of this place, I often screen mirror my phone onto the TV for shows and other things. Unfortunately, my TV only connects on 2.4GHz while my smart devices are all on 5.0GHz.
The advice by Netgear was to walk far away from the router (leaving my apt) to activate it every time I want to mirror. There has to be a smarter way to do this!
Please be more specific about exactly what app, on what model of phone, is not working with what model of TV. The Orbi network is seamless, meaning that devices connected via 2.4Ghz can see and talk to devices connected via 5Ghz. So that's not the problem.
Some apps that setup IoT device wireless settings are difficult to use with Orbi because the network the phone is connected to (e.g., 5Ghz) is not the same network info the IoT device needs to use (e.g., 2.4Ghz).
So is your "screen mirroring setup" trying to do the same thing? I would guess that once your TV is connected to the Orbi network then this is not an issue anymore, so the details of what your screen mirroring setup app looks like would help us understand if this is indeed a 2.4Ghz vs. 5Ghz issue or something else.
