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JTBoo
Follower
Feb 08, 2020

Making Router use 5GHz Band for Gaming

Have a Play Station 4 (PS4). Modem and Router Info listed above. Using the Nighthawk mobile app (version 2.4.18.7) for WiFi management, I have selected "smart connect" to more efficiently manage co...
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duckware
Prodigy
Feb 11, 2020

'Smart connect' is often times not smart at all.  Just turn off smart connect, name your 2.4 wifi network and name the 5 GHz network the same, but with "-5G" added to the SSID name.  Then, in clients, connect to one or the other.