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Why is my smartconnect very stupid?
I chose the smart connect as recommended then set up 5 devices then I went to devices on the the Netgear nighthawk app and 4 of the five devices were connected to 5GHZ-2 and the one i especially wan...
stringhacker wrote:
Is setting up manually as easy as changing the passwords and ssid’s
On the different bands?? Thanks again for replying and all the great info!!Yes, that is all you need to do on the router, then on the devices, pick the SSID you want it to connect to. You only really need to uncheck SMART CONNECT and change the SSID for 5Ghz-1 or 5Ghz-2 ones, no need to change both. Both can have the same password.
> [...] not very smart if you ask me!
Who asked you?
Knowing nothing, I'd guess that these devices negotiated with the
router, and together they chose the radio band/SSID based on some
(secret?) criteria, involving parameters like signal strength,
congestion, and so on. Perhaps they got an optimal configuration, and
perhaps not. You apparently believe that they chose unwisely.
If you're convinced that you can do a better job (which might very
well be true, for all I know), then you might be happier with a
different SSID for every radio, and the resulting control that such a
configuration would offer the user.
It might make some sense to run the experiment, and see which
configuration performs better, and then act accordingly. I'd also want
to see if the automatic configuration depends on circumstances (device
start-up sequence, interference from neighbors, who-knows-what-else?).
It's not obvious to me that the obvious-to-you configuration would
actually work better. (But it might. What do I know?)
Haha!! Well your right, nobody asked me!! I’m thinking maybe it put my tv on 2.5G cause at the time I downloaded the nighthawk app and started smart connect the TV was on regular cable but when I turned on amazon prime it’s started buffering and saying not enough bandwidth??
Anyway thanks for your input and I think I will go on the regular router.net site and try what you suggested!! Thanks again.
Anyway thanks for your input and I think I will go on the regular router.net site and try what you suggested!! Thanks again.