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Dual band working (i.e. incorrect automatic setup)
Hello again! I've just acquired an EX7700 Tri-band Wi-fi extender (secondhand!) to go with my Netgear D6400 router, and hopefully to work with my existing Netgear EX7300 and EX7500 extenders. Havin...
Providing something of an answer to myself here - as well as asking a slightly different question.
OK, so I found that by choosing to answer 'No' to both the radio buttons on the Wireless sttings config page [No to One WiFi Name, and No to Enable Smart Connect] I can actually have the EX7700 transmitting the same SSID (and use the same password as the router does on the 2.4GHz band) as well as using the same SSID and password as the router does on the 5GHz band. So that part of the config "would appear to be" set up. [See attached file]
However, I now observe that although the check boxes show that the 2.4GHz service should in use as well as the 5GHz service, the EX7700 device doesn't appear to be happy on its Menu page, and declares that it's "not connected" - even though the wi-fi analyzer program (on my Kindle) would appear to indicate that there is a transmission taking place on the Channel I allocated (Ch.6) from the EX7700. Equally, the Router Link LED is showing amber (normally requiring that the extender is moved closer to the router!) even though the router is less than 2 metres away from the extender!! This is getting wierder by the hour!
