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Dear Netgear I have spent a good wallup of money on a RBR/RBS850 setup, expecting to be well equiped for our WIFI- and LAN networking needs in this day an age... Apparently I couldn't have been more...
Rodent wrote:
Dear Netgear
I have spent a good wallup of money on a RBR/RBS850 setup, expecting to be well equiped for our WIFI- and LAN networking needs in this day an age... Apparently I couldn't have been more wrong!?!
To my supprise this system doesn't allow for 2.4GHz seperation of SSID's - litterally disabeling all but the very latest IOT devices found in homes everywhere.
Netgear, how can you NOT have fixed this issue on the RBR850 yet??
This issue comes up here with monotonous regularity.
Few Mesh systems allow separate SSIDs. It simply is not needed except to make up for badly written IoT apps. Even then there are ways to achieve the required effect without breaking the Mesh technology.
Not having separate SSIDs will not disable any IoT device. A 2.4 GHz device cannot see 5 GHz and will connect to the router's 2.4 GHz wifi.
You just have it work out how to make it work, And that is down to whoever made the IoT thing.