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How to connect my andraoid phone to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi of T-Moblie Gateway?
I am using a T-Mobile Gateway as my home Wi-Fi network instead of a regular router. Recently, I tried to connect a smart device (a Wi-Fi dimmer switch) to the network using the Smart Life...
ziliwang wrote:
Following your instructions, I changed the Transmission Mode of the 2.4GHz network from Auto (ax/g) to n/g and saved the changes (see attached screenshot). However, I am still unble to see a separate Wi-Fi connection on my mobile phone or computer. It still appears as a 2.4G/5G connection (see attached). What could be the issue and how can I solve it?
Even though you lowered the transmission mode of the 2.4GHz band, it is still sharing the same WiFi broadcast name as the 5GHz band.
Two separate options:
- Rename the SSID1 name, so it doesn’t share the same broadcast name as the 5GHz band, or ...
- Select SSID2, enable it, and name it differently from the 5GHz band. This will create an additional accessible 2.4GHz band. You may have to lower the transmission and/or encryption protocols for SSID2.
tomwil wrote:ziliwang wrote:
If you have and like to share your experience on how to connect a mobile phone to the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network, it will be appreciated!
The T-Mobile Home Internet gateways use WiFi6 ax protocols, which basically combines both 2.4GHz and 5GHz with a shared WiFi broadcast name.
Sometimes, to connect older devices (that use b/n/g/ac protocols), you may have to split the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, and/or lower the transmission and encryption protocols.
on my Comcast set up they switched me to WPA3. which we found out shuts down 2.4..we had to go back in and change it to WPA3-Personal-Transisition to get 2.4 back.
