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lucrenet
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Mar 23, 2017
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Netgear Night Hawk R8000 Guest 2.4GHZ same SSID problem

The last two update of the firmware for the Night Hawk R8000 cause the Guest bands of 2.4 and 5 GHZ can not assigned the same Guest Wireless Name SSID.  Once I tried to set all three bands on the sam...
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  • JamesGL's avatar
    JamesGL
    Apr 13, 2017

    Hi lucrenet,

     

    This is normal since those networks are intended to have different network names. This is to identify as well as to which network you are connected.

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JamesGL
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Apr 13, 2017

Hi lucrenet,

 

This is normal since those networks are intended to have different network names. This is to identify as well as to which network you are connected.

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    JamesGL
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Apr 17, 2017

    Hi lucrenet,


    We’d greatly appreciate hearing your feedback letting us know if you need further assistance.