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Security camera won't connect to 5ghz gateway
I just switched to tmobile and my security camera now will not connect due to needing to be on 2.4ghz. Is the gateway capable of this? The company I switched from had the 2.4 and 5 option.
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) radios “should” be backward compatible with 802.11/a/b/g/n/ac radios. The standard is designed for backward compatibility. Are all vendors implementing the software to be 100% compatible? Well, no software solution is perfect 100% of the time.
Look at the documentation for your camera and determine the authentication it supports. It may be older and only support WPA and not WPA2 or WPA3 authentication. If that is the case then you need to be sure the authentication for the 2.4 GHz radio supports WPA, WPA2 & WPA3 for proper authentication with the WIFI clients that need that frequency. The 802.11ax standard works in both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands so it is improved over the 802.11ac standard in multiple ways.
If you have the Nokia GW you could go to the 2.4GHz radio and select SSID 2 and configure it to allow WPA if you do not want your primary SSIDs 1, 5, 9 to only allow WPA2 and or WPA3 authentication. I run two concurrent SSIDs and it works fine. I can be authenticated on the second SSID and disable the other SSIDs on each radio and never miss a beat as I am on the second SSID. I don't have to be on the Ethernet cable to manage the alternate SSID. The Nokia comes with 4 default SSIDs for each radio. Only 1, 5, & 9 are enabled by default.
If the authentication of the camera demands WPA only creating a second SSID with WPA authentication in addition to the other SSID could solve the problem for you.
