Hello all, I can not figure out what setting to change to allow my older 2.4 wireless clients to see the wireless network. I have seemingly changed every setting I could find in the wireless area of the router in trying to figure out why my Lenovo X120e is not even able to see the router. I have read somewhere that the other orbi models have a setting called "AX" where you can turn it on and off to allow access to older clients. I haven't found such a setting in this model. I also have a number of guests that visit that have said the same thing about their older devices not being able to see any available network. Thoughts?
Re: SXR80 doesn't show up in older 2.4 wireless devices
1. older devices that I have seen, including mine, will see other networks, just not mine. They do not see my SSID. And when I tried to manually add the network as if it is a non-broadcasting SSID it still doesn't connect.
2. I have updated the drivers to the official lenovo drivers, and also updated it to try, with the Intel drivers, and also with the Windows drivers. None of them work
3. Sure, I can buy a wireless card for my device, I am thinking about my guests/customers. I can't really expect them to change or buy different devices for my network.
4. Hahaha. That is funny you should say that. I had 3 netgear routers serving the purpose of having multiple SSIDs (all with separate external IP space so the devices never routed between each other. The whole reason I got the orbi business was to do away with 3 separate routers and do more of a small business setup. Something tells me I should have trusted my friend when he said to spend the same amount and buy Ubiquiti. 😞
Re: SXR80 doesn't show up in older 2.4 wireless devices
You'd have ran into the same issue with Ubiquiti.
Its a problem of the drivers on the older devices going to the AX spec (wifi 6), not of the router itself.
wifi 6 was supposed to be backwards compatible, sadly it wasn't with some older devices.
And it is better to use a business grade one for a business. Nice thing is you can plug an old/cheap N300 router into it and put it on its own vlan through the settings so it won't jeapordize your setup.
Or don't worry about it a whole lot. Most devices made halfway recently function fine on AX standards. Tends to be the really older devices.
... allow my older 2.4 wireless clients to see the wireless network. ...to figure out why my Lenovo X120e is not even able to see the router.
Another possible reason - especially if you are located in regulatory areas allowing 13 channels on 2.4 GHz - set a 2.4 GHz channel to the range 1...11.
Have you figured out what Wi-Fi adapter is installed on your Lenovo X120e? Trouble is that the official Lenovo drivers are more than a decade old.
