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fireman1092
Aspirant
Nov 16, 2020

Disable the 5Ghz radio on the R7000 Nighthawk

I need to disable the 5Ghx radio only.  I do not see any radio switch buttons when I access the router itself.  Any suggestions?  Customer support is impossible to get ahold of.  Spent 2 hours on hold before I threw in the towel.

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  • > Model: R7000|AC1900 Smart WIFI Router

     

       Firmware version?

     

    > I need to disable the 5Ghx radio only. [...]

     

       Says who?  Why?  ("GHz".)

     

       General advice: You might have more success if you described the
    actual problem which you are trying to solve, rather than asking how to
    implement some particular "solution" ("disable the 5Ghx radio"), which
    may have little or nothing to do with the actual problem (whatever it
    might be).

     

    > [...] I do not see any radio switch buttons when I access the router
    > itself. [...]

     

       Where, exactly, were you looking?  "access the router itself" how,
    exactly?  Web browser?  Some app or other?  Other?


    > [...] Spent 2 hours on hold before I threw in the towel.

     

       That time might have been better spent using a different technique
    (which can be used in parallel with not talking on the telephone):

     

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM

     

       Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
    for Documentation.  Get the User Manual (at least).  Read.  Look for
    "Control the WiFi Radios" and "Enable or Disable the WiFi Radios".

     

       Whether doing that makes sense is, of course, still an open question.

    • fireman1092's avatar
      fireman1092
      Aspirant

      Needed to disable the 5G to prevent radio interference with my ISPs equippment located on my property.  Got it solved wityh online customer support.  Thanks for the replies.  And yes I did a lot of other things while on hold. lol