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ggb1979
Aspirant
Dec 15, 2025

Confused by legacy network extenders still connecting

hi would appreciate some advice   I am UK based, with vodafone fibre 500 connection.   Recently purchased orbi 370 with 1 base unit and 2 satalites to replace the vodafone default router and voda...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 15, 2025

Did you perhaps set up the guest and iot network to use these _EXT SSIDs???

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ggb1979
Aspirant
Dec 15, 2025

no didn't set that up at all. There is no guest wifi set up

 

I am tempted to re-do set up and call my network something complete different then manually re-add everything