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Making Router use 5GHz Band for Gaming

JTBoo
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Making Router use 5GHz Band for Gaming

Have a Play Station 4 (PS4).

Modem and Router Info listed above.

Using the Nighthawk mobile app (version 2.4.18.7) for WiFi management, I have selected "smart connect" to more efficiently manage connections.

In that app, I have manually identified the PS4 IP address as a "game" address using the appropriate icon and labeling it as "PS4."

Have tried not using the "smart connect" feature but the PS4 does not seem to identify the sub-addresses (or networks) created when this feature is turned off.

 

PROBLEM: The management app will only connesct the PS4 at 2.4GHz!

Obviously, this is inadequate and causes significant quality issues with interface.

 

Is this an identified problem?

Please provide pointers?

 

POSSIBLE SOLUTION: When the user identifies (manually labels) an IP address as "game" using the provided icon in the mobile app. The game icon itself can inform the app to always assign that IP address to the 5GHz bandwidth.

Specific instructions can be assigned to other icons as well.

Model: CM1100|Nighthawk Multi-Gig Speed Cable Modem—DOCSIS 3.1, RAX200|Nighthawk Tri-band AX12 12-Stream Wi-Fi 6 Router
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Re: Making Router use 5GHz Band for Gaming

It is down to the wifi client to make the connection. The router just puffs out wifi. Your PS4, or whatever you are using, then makes the link.

 


@JTBoo wrote:

 

PROBLEM: The management app will only connesct the PS4 at 2.4GHz!

Obviously, this is inadequate and causes significant quality issues with interface.

 

What management app are we talking about here?

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duckware
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Re: Making Router use 5GHz Band for Gaming

'Smart connect' is often times not smart at all.  Just turn off smart connect, name your 2.4 wifi network and name the 5 GHz network the same, but with "-5G" added to the SSID name.  Then, in clients, connect to one or the other.

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Othgood
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Re: Making Router use 5GHz Band for Gaming

If you have an older PS4 is only supports 802.11 b/g/n, so that's where you'll stay.

 

If you have a Pro :

 

  1. Go to Settings > Network > Setup Internet Connection > Use Wi-Fi > Easy.

  2. Next press the Options button > select Wi-Fi Frequency Bands.

  3. Select 5 GHz Only if listed and press X. 5 GHz frequency band is supported for PS4™ Slim and PS4™ Pro models.

Hope this helps you out.

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