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Orbi AX6000 Mesh - Smart lighting 2.4GHz connectivity
Dear community, I hope you can help. We have a quite large house, and im currently covering the house by having the Orbi router placed centrally in the house, and then having three Orbi sattelites s...
Ktejlgaard wrote:The sattelite in the office space is of connection type 5GHz and it turns out that all devices (including the bulps) that require 2.4GHz are trying to connect to the main router in stead of the local Sattelite, and thereby struggeling to connect.
Your problem is not Orbi's SSID shared between 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz, but that your 2.4Ghz devices are some how not connecting to the satellite. The 2.4Ghz network is mesh as well, so the base and every satellite can support 2.4Ghz devices. It's not possible to make your Orbi satellite only broadcast 5Ghz (it uses 5Ghz for the backbone but supports connections from both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz devices).
I don't know why your devices would not connect to the satellite. Orbi doesn't and cannot control where devices connect to. The devices themselves decide which of the multiple wireless access points they connect to, and usually it's the strongest signal (so closest). If you reset your light bulbs after your Orbi base and satellites are up and running, do they still try to connect to the base? Do you see any 2.4Ghz devices connecting to your satellite?