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PLW 1000. How do I choose for it to use 5g instead of the 2.4. How do I shut off the wifi
The specs say its compatible with 2.4 and 5g. How do I make sure its using the 5g mode. Coming out of my router, its connected via ethernet obviouisly. My router is 2.4 and 5g capable tri band. Also how do I turn off the wifi broadcast on it? I want to use it as a wired access point only and dont wat to extend the WIFi and have it possible drag down the signal
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Apologies, but I find your message hard to understand.
The wifi band of your router has nothing to do with the wifi bands of the powerline device.
Where do you want to turn off the wifi? Router? Powerline device?
What make and model is the router?
The Powerline device cannot communicate with your router over wifi. Both are broadcasters rather than receivers.
Have you read the manual for this device?
Powerline WiFi 1000 Quick Start Guide.pdf
Here is the point and the question more carefully put.
I am VERY familiar with this technology.
The unit is suppoed to operate on the 2.4 and 5 gig bands, not all extenders do this.
This unit is both and extender AND a powerline device.
As it relats to the extender part. When a signal is fed to it via ethernet cable from the router, it then
transmits that hard wire signal over your wiring system and is intersecpted at some other recepticle
with little loss in signal supposedly.
Now, it then transmits that signal via WIF on both 2.4 and 5gig bands as an extender of types. This is different
from a conventional extender which pulls the signal from the air (wi-fi) and then amplifies and it and rebroadcasts it.
This netgear unit takes the hardwire signal from the wirign system, and rebroadcasts that signal AND also allows
for access to the signal via an ethernet connection much like a conventionly extender does.
So the point is, this is a unique type of powerline adapter AND extender built into one.
The one thing that it does NOT do, is receive WIFI and rebrocast the WIFI as do most typcial extenders.
So when it says it transmits over the 2.4/5g bands, that signal is only as good as it what it takes from the wiring system and
sends out via WIFI.
There is very little in the way of specs, no bandwith info, data rate info.
Try to compare how well this unit works compared lets say with a dual band router is hard to get a grip on with no data to compare.
Now when I ask the question, HOW DO I turn OFF the WIFI. here is why I asked, I want to use the wired feature of this like a typcial powerline converter but do NOT want to use the WIFI. So I reasoned that if I dedicated the full signal its getting from the wiring system, to the ethernet output port, and it was NOT sharing signal with brodcasting 2.4/5g WIFI, it would be better, thus the question, how do I turn that part off?
I'm sorry, but I still dpo not understand you.
Looking at this bit:
dyna962007 wrote:Now when I ask the question, HOW DO I turn OFF the WIFI. here is why I asked, I want to use the wired feature of this like a typcial powerline converter but do NOT want to use the WIFI.
I assume that you want to turn off the wifi from the Powerplug. Everything you wrote before that, then, is not relevant. Who cares about the different wifi bands when you want to turn the wifi off?
My own wifi powerline equipment is of an older generation. I used the powerline utility to configure it. Perhaps there is a version also for your hardware.
Everything I said up to that point is NOT irrelevant for all of the people who buy it to use it in WIFI mode.
BUT, to be even more clear, yes, yes, I am trying to figure out how to disable or turn off the WIFI feature of the POWERLINE adapter itself and ONLY use its wired ethernet port. There is nothing I can find in the utility or manual on how to do this
Looking at the powerline utility, there is no option to turn off wifi.
I guess that Netgear assumes that people who buy a wifi Powerline device want to use wifi, and people who don't want wifi buy a LAN-only powerline device.
In any case, I suspect that you are barking up the wrong tree as your understanding of how things work may be a bit wonky.
Take this bit:
I reasoned that if I dedicated the full signal its getting from the wiring system, to the ethernet output port, and it was NOT sharing signal with brodcasting 2.4/5g WIFI, it would be better
It makes no sense. LAN is digital technology, there is no "signal strength" to worry about.
Having the wifi turned on will not, as you put it earlier, "drag down the signal" on the ethernet (LAN).
Don't worry about theoretical scenarios. Just leave the wifi turned on and see how things work. It might even come in useful.
