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swami7774
Nov 14, 2015Tutor
Switching between 2.4g and 5g.
I have a Nighthawk r7000. It offers two networks: 2.4G and 5G. Should I be able to manually switch between the 2 networks? I just tried to switch from 5 to 2.4(just to test it and make sure it was wo...
- Nov 19, 2015
Simply changine SSID's and passwords shouldn't change anything other than clients will have to re-authorize on the new SSID.
However, I have seen the router work fine and brick itself on a reboot :-(
swami7774
Nov 18, 2015Tutor
Been away for a few days--sorry! I have not yet tried to assign names and passwords to the 2 bands, Figured I'd leave well enough along--unless you can assure me that changing the names (which, ideally, I'd like to do) won't mess it up again.
rpoffen
Nov 19, 2015Virtuoso
Simply changine SSID's and passwords shouldn't change anything other than clients will have to re-authorize on the new SSID.
However, I have seen the router work fine and brick itself on a reboot :-(
- swami7774Nov 19, 2015Tutor
I've seen it too, which is exactly why I'm inclined to leave it as is.