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mwassy888
Aspirant
Nov 05, 2020

fixing a device to 2.4 vs 5 using smart connect X6 R8000 & X6 EX8000

Hello, I have an X6 R8000  V1.0.4.62_10.1.74 & EX 8000 V1.0.1.224.   The ex8000 is configured as an extended with smart connect and one wifi name.   I originally had smart connect and one wifi n...
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microchip8
Master
Nov 06, 2020

Not with Smart Connect enabled. SC on NG routers is suboptimal and often doesn't work as intended due to bugs. If you want to pin devices to a specific band, use the traditional method and not SC

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mwassy888
Aspirant
Nov 06, 2020

Understood thank you for the feedback.