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How to force a device onto 5ghz band

Karlikihetep — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 22:36:47 GMT

Hi,

I have the EE Smart Router and have just purchased a Ring 4 doorbell. I want to get the doorbell so that it always connects to the 5ghz band and not the 2.4.

I’ve gone into the router admin settings to see if I can separate the bands and then I’d just set the doorbell up on the 5ghz band. Unfortunately, I can’t see an option for splitting bands.

My question is, am I missing seeing the band splitting option, if so where is it?!

Failing that is there a way in the router settings to edit the device so it only connects to either the 5 or 2.4?

All help is greatly appreciated

Re: How to force a device onto 5ghz band

mikeliuk — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 22:46:03 GMT

I would recommend abandoning the exercise of trying to get a small device onto the 5.0 GHz radio.

This is because the 5.0 GHz radio is intended for short-range, high-bandwidth applications and it is unlikely to provide a sufficiently stable connection for most houses where the router is typically quite far from the front door and with at least the additional barrier of the front door, or a front wall on top of other obstacles.

Splitting the radios would be your best hope. There is unlikely to be a way to blacklist your device for one of the radios while whitelisting it for the other (blacklisting and whitelisting are typically by MAC for both radios). Routers with a guest network/guest radio may have other options.

Re: How to force a device onto 5ghz band

XRaySpeX — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 22:52:14 GMT

With the EE Smart Router, unlike the EE Smart Hub, you cannot separate the wireless bands/SSIDs. You could try disabling the 2.4 GHz band, let your device connect & then reenable the 2.4 GHz band.

However doorbells typically run on the 2.4 GHz band anyway.

Re: How to force a device onto 5ghz band

Mustrum — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 23:00:16 GMT

@mikeliuk please stop your misinformation posts.

What are you trying to achieve?

Re: How to force a device onto 5ghz band

XRaySpeX — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 23:09:34 GMT

Oh, he is so disruptive! I'm reporting him to the Mods if not higher up. He is wasting so much of my time trying, unsuccessfully, to put him right 😞 as well as the many unsubstantiated Google extracts/links he digs up about technical matters he is ignorant of.

Re: How to force a device onto 5ghz band

Mustrum — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 23:08:08 GMT

I have done so several times, classic case of a little knowledge used in the wrong way causes far more disruption and no help to the original posters.

The SNR confusion is a classic case - happy for helping people, but it helps no one when he spouts stuff he does not understand, and editing posts 5 or 6 times until he gets a glimmer helps no one.