Disable, reduce or turn off broadcast capability

You can reude the power output of the RBRs radios. 

Under Advanced Tab/Advanced Settings/Wireless Settings

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LukeM wrote:

Hi,

I have an Orbi RBR850 with two sattelites. I have some Smart LED lights that I want to connect to my home management software. Like many IoT devices, they can only connect via the 2.4 GHz band, not the 5 GHz band. Whilst I am the first to agree that it is idealogically wrong that the router should need to be dumbed down to suit lazy/dated installation software, the reality is that it could take some time before the majority of IoT devices work with the 5GHz band. 

 

As a consequence, setting them up is a nightmare, because almost all run on Android/iOS apps on a smartphone and, of course, most smartphones grab the 5 GHz connection when they can. Although there are workarounds such as going far enough away that the 5 GHz signal is out of range but the 2.4 still in range, these are not practical and may not be possible for e.g. people living in apartments, etc. 

 

It would be very useful to be able to temporarily disable one or other of the broadcasts, or diminish the output to the point that it is effectively the same. Alternatively, the possibility to operate them on different SSIDs would work, although I understand this is contra to the whole idea of Mesh and a seamless experience when a device is mobile. 

 

Anyway, if you do not ask... (And I am sure I am not the first, so this post is more about getting the number of requests up).

 

Thanks,

Luke

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