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jim4824
Jan 25, 2021Aspirant
Change wirless ssid name
I have a nighthawk R7800 dual band router. It was setup with only one SSID name so the 2.4 and 5.o ghz was not differentiated in the network name. Now I need to sometimes only access the 2.4 GHZ...
- Jan 25, 2021
In version 1.0.2.52 of the firmware, smart connect was added to the R7800. Maybe the "applies to" didn't get updated. but if you're on that version or newer, you should have smart connect.
The same article walks through disabling it.
jim4824
Jan 25, 2021Aspirant
Thank you but this article does not appear to apply to the R7800 router, (at least its not listed as one of the routers the article applies to) I have a dual band not a tri band router. Right now there only 1 wireless network name for the 2.4 and 5.0 ghz bands. I want to go back to 2 seperate wireless network names - one for 2.4 and one for 5.0.
plemans
Jan 25, 2021Guru - Experienced User
In version 1.0.2.52 of the firmware, smart connect was added to the R7800. Maybe the "applies to" didn't get updated. but if you're on that version or newer, you should have smart connect.
The same article walks through disabling it.