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swami7774
Tutor
Nov 14, 2015
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Switching between 2.4g and 5g.

I have a Nighthawk r7000. It offers two networks: 2.4G and 5G. Should I be able to manually switch between the 2 networks? I just tried to switch from 5 to 2.4(just to test it and make sure it was wo...
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  • rpoffen's avatar
    rpoffen
    Nov 19, 2015

    Simply changine SSID's and passwords shouldn't change anything other than clients will have to re-authorize on the new SSID.

    However, I have seen the router work fine and brick itself on a reboot :-(

     

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rpoffen
Virtuoso
Nov 19, 2015

Simply changine SSID's and passwords shouldn't change anything other than clients will have to re-authorize on the new SSID.

However, I have seen the router work fine and brick itself on a reboot :-(

 

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swami7774
Tutor
Nov 19, 2015

I've seen it too, which is exactly why I'm inclined to leave it as is.