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HOW TO DISABLE 5G TEMPORARILY ON ORBI ROUTER
HELLO, I own an Orbi system and recently obtained a Personal Weather station that does direct uploads to various weather sites online. The weather station will only connect to Wi-Fi via a 2.4GHZ sys...
Obviously I would have no way of knowing how Orbi has or has not operated in the past, I think it's more than obvious that this has been my first experience with the device. So whether or not it it used to have the capability to separate the 2.4Ghz band from the 5.0Ghz band I have no idea, basically the only education that I have received regarding the device has been very recent, and from two sources, what I have been able to garner here and also from a week or so of what has turned out to be very frustrating hands on experience. Without going back and re-reading close to a hundred posts on this thread I can't say specifically who said what regarding separating the two bands, but that idea came from this thread. And frankly, at this point it's moot anyway, because whether it was at one time possible, it isn't now.
As far as disabling the 5Ghz band, what I posted here is completely and precisely what I did, in detail, as well as the results. You can draw your own conclusion as to why it didn't work.
Cheers.
Well, just letting you know. Separation of SSIDs on Orbi has never been a supported feature and still remains that way.
Possible there maybe some differences in FW between v1 and v2 versions, however I suspect that other than HW differences, there isn't much else. Seems that v1s have working abilities to disable the 5Ghz SSID broadcast and maybe v2s don't. Possible that v2's may not be working right. This would have to be reviewed by NG to see if it's really working.
If your so inclinded to try at somepoint, you may give Voxels 3rd party Orbi FW a try and see if separation of SSID works. He's done some tuning on this and you may find it might work for you.
Or keep stock FW.
I am not so inclined. Re-read my previous posts, I have been and still am interested in only one thing, and that is getting the LaCrosse device working properly with the Orbi. I'm not interested in any involvement regarding software/firmware changes or fixes, and I am also not interested in the 'whys' or 'why nots'. As I stated, I have only one goal in mind and that is to get a device that is suppose to be compatible with the Orbi to work properly with the Orbi. It's that simple. Again, if you will read my previous post, you will see that LaCrosse has offered what should be a solution fo this issue. I'll know when I receive the decice.
Cheers.
Good Luck.
.I hope this helps someone. We had the same problem linking security cameras to the Orbi. Ended up firing up an older router that allows 5g to be disabled. Switched the Orbi OFF. Gave the old wifi with only 2.4g the same password as the Orbi. Connected the cameras. Switched the old router off and reconnected the Orbi. All works fine.
You can do this as well on the RBR:
CSAUSTRALIA wrote:.I hope this helps someone. We had the same problem linking security cameras to the Orbi. Ended up firing up an older router that allows 5g to be disabled. Switched the Orbi OFF. Gave the old wifi with only 2.4g the same password as the Orbi. Connected the cameras. Switched the old router off and reconnected the Orbi. All works fine.