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Surface/Orbi Picking 2.4G over 5G
My Surface Pro 4 likes to pick up the 2.4G channel on my Orbi setup which results in degraded performance. For now I disabled 2.4G in the device manager on the Surface. It's been my experience the ...
This is part of the mesh system principles. That all APs have only one single SSID for all used channels. This should give you the most smooth roaming, but depends much on the capabilities of your devices. All new devices should work perfectly with Orbi. New devices support roaming standards like 802.11k, 802.11v and 802.11r.
If you reduce the power of the 2.4 GHz band in Orbi, you might be able to force some of your devices to prefer the 5 GHz band over the 2.4 GHz band.