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How to disable 2.4G wireless AP?
I believe this is an old question but I really wonder why netgear insist on using same SSID for both 2.4G and 5G while having the option to disable 2.4G wireless AP on the latest fireware. My need is...
OK, I live in a crowded city apartment where there's 10s of AP from my neighbors surrounding me anyway. We got many small rooms partitioned by brick and concrete that might dampen the signal quality. I have to put my RKB50 router inside a wooden shelf because its way too big and it doesn't match my interior design. Without the satellite I can't even connect to wifi at my farest room. Yes I got enough power outlets but none of them are installed next to a desk or shelf where I could reasonably place that bulky RKB50 satellite in a tidy manner.
The fact is that when I run speedtest right next to the router it's around 100Mbps (at 5G I believe). It can drops to below 10Mbps at some of my farest rooms (2.4G thru a satellite), where I could safely get around 60Mbps with my LTE network.
Codeblue229 You have a difficult environment then. Your ideal solution would be a collection of wired APs, running on 5 GHz only. The larger number of channels would better allow you to set channels unused by neighbors. Because 5 GHz doesn't go through walls well, you need APs close to clients to get decent speed. So, you'd probably need one AP in every other room. You'd need to manually set their channels and powers so they don't overlap each other, and so they didn't conflict with your neighbors APs. The block walls would help avoid neighbors.
Unless you already have Ethernet wired in most rooms, you'd need to run wires along the ceiling or baseboard.
You can't create a setup like that with Orbi. You need the 2.4 GHz to penetrate walls. The only suggestion I can make is to do a WiFi survey and manually set Orbi's 2.4 GHz channels to best avoid neighbors' APs.