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Curlie028
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Jul 31, 2021

NETGEAR Tri-band Wireless Mesh WiFi Internet Booster Range Extender Installation Help Needed

Bought this extender just before Christmas 2020 because all reviews suggested it was easy to set-up and delivered great results but that couldn't be further from the truth for me. A little backgroun...
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bujase3
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Sep 12, 2021

The ability to seperate the 2.4ghz and 5ghz wifi is not exposed by any of the GUI management interfaces. You have to enable telnet via the debug interface and then use a telnet client to log in page to the Orbi and make the change via the command line interface.