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It would be useful in the GUI (and perhaps app) to have the ability to turn off specific wifi band radios temporarily.
As an example, turn off the 5g radio.
This would be useful in settin...
RBR50 - FW 2.5.1.8
Difficult to configure IoT Smart Home devices with 2.4 GHz only device limitations without more intuitive control over 5 GHz radio. Disabling 5 GHz SSID broadcast does not defeat iPhone from making 5 GHz connection. Using Telnet to set 5 GHz SSID (wla_ssid) different from 2.4 GHz SSID (wl_ssid) gets undone by Orbi within some seconds, so both radios use the wl_ssid label after brief period of broadcasting the different wla_sid label.
Workaround relying on more attenution from walls, etc., of 5 GHz (with 25% power and short preamble) relative to 2.4 GHz was tough when configuring Wifi doorbell because router and modem are also immovable. Spent hours to find a sweet spot to connect phone to 2.4 that would not switch to 5 when getting back to the front door. Could not connect phone standing at front door, but once connected it stayed after getting back to front door. This was more like black magic than reasoned engineering. Netgear can offer a better solution.