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Turn off Wifi?
I just added mesh wifi to my T-Mobile home internet and now I get great 5 GHz signal everywhere in my house. I'd like to turn off the wifi on my G4AR gateway and use the dedicated mesh as the primary...
Had the same question when I started using the service. Download the app called HINT. That will turn it off and also hide the SSID.
Pentiumii wrote:Thank you so much. with the combined information I have been able to turn off the radios and fairly confident that I can turn them back on. I purchased the flint to invoke failover with two data inputs. I have a ton to learn about the flint, but I believe it will be awesome once I can get vpn working. I had so many radios on from the two sources, the flint, and then my orbi that I was gettin a ton of interference.
Yeah, in general you want one "system" of radios, with multiple APs like that. Ideally, they should be the same vendor so that roaming works, between them, and tuned for signal strength, such that they only overlap at about 60 or dBm.
Not having them set up this way will cause strange client behavior, as your client devices try to sort out which of the many concurrent signals are the best one, which can be a series of failures, basically, if there are overlapping strong signals. You'll want to tune both the 2.4 and 5GHz radios, separately/per-AP, for the best possible performance. There are many great YT videos on AP tuning, for reference.
