Orbi AXE11000 creating double wlan networks - how to get rid of?

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Orbi-876553 wrote:

- The default named network works fine with the default passwords etc. (and due to the default settings it is very insecure, so would like to erase it). And the network I named with my passwords etc.

 

- Only the network I named is visible in the admin panel ..

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What a puzzle.  Do you have access to an app that can identify exactly which WiFi access points are broadcasting each network name (SSID)?

• WiFi Info View (free for Windows from Nirsoft) https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wifi_information_view.html 
• WiFi Analyzer for Android (I like the one by Kevin Yuon)

The key may lie in this comment:

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Orbi-876553 wrote:

As a background, I had super difficult set-up of the devices and had to restart the satellites to factory settings and then add them to the network one by one to get the wlan working (the satellites seemed to be connecting to the router according to the led lights, but the netowrk didn't work and I could also see anything then in the admin panel

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Is this still the case.  i.e. when you bring up the Orbi web interface Attached Devices page, does it show the satellites at the top of the page with "Good" connection to the router?

My suspicion is that although the router is broadcasting the WiFi network that you defined (SSID/password), perhaps one or more satellites are not actually sync'd with the router and are broadcasting the default WiFi network.

With a situation this bizarre, the most obvious solution is to Factory Reset everything and configure the router from scratch.

p.s. I would not be overly worried about security of the default WiFi network.  Chances of a neighbor guessing the two random words and three digit number for the default network password are nearly zero.