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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...
Simply not required - these IoT junk makers must fix their crappy discovery tools. Leave negative feedback on the seller and e-tailer sites, Amazon et all, and on the Apple App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore. Can't be difficult to remove the check if the mobile is connected to the 2.4 GHz, and allow continuation.
Other major Mesh device vendors like Eero or Google/Nest intentionally don't support such controls either - simply to avoid the negative impact on the user experience.
For the very same reason, virtually all WiFi client drivers, mobile and desktop computers, tablets, phones don't have a control to force the usage of either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz only, too.
Ref. the original subject to allow turning off one or the other radio interface: Some Orbi models share the same interface for the backhaul.