I currently have Gen1 Google Wifi. Its works other than certain IOT devices need to connect to 2.4Ghz and I can not turn off the 5ghz band so the device wont initially connect. I have to do the whole, change SSID on google wifi. Turn phone hotspot on and name that SSID what my home network will be, connect the IOT device to my phone hotspot first then turn off my phone hotspot and change SSID on google back to normal, then device connects.
So I dont know if i necessarily need a system that can have separate SSID’s or just ability to temporarily turn off the 5G band.
Right now I am looking at the following. Looking for opinions.
Eero 6 plus. (Can ‘PAUSE’ the 5Ghz network)
TPLink Deco XE75. (Can turn off 5Ghz network)
Asus ZenWifi AX6600 (Has separate SSID’s. May be overkill though. Most expensive option)
I have 9 nodes on a Deco XP20 system here, and it runs like a dream, you can have a separate IoT network, turn off 5Ghz (Although I never had to) in the 6 years I have been running it, I have had one node go pop, but apart from that excellent little system.
I’m very happy with AVM Fritz!Box mesh.
Turning off 5ghz with a button in HA is ultimate comfort…
The whole AVM config is rock solid and has very user friendly interface.
So you never had a device that needed to connect to 2.4Ghz network but when it tried to connect to your network, it couldent; and then you had to disable to 5Ghz to have it connect?
I have plenty of 2.4Ghz devices, I connected a iRobot i5 Vacuum last night, that is 2.4Ghz only, I didn’t turn anything off, although you can, it just connected. Then things like my Google Displays, phone etc all connect to the 5Ghz. There is also a option to have a separate 2.4Ghz channel just for your devices if you want that.
I cant think of a specific device right now, but a few of mine woudlent connect to my 2.4 until I, in essence through other means, turned off the 5. I then connected to the 2.4. THen I could turn back on the 5 and it was fine.
Was almost like it could not find the 2,4 when the 5 was shouting as well. But once I knew where 2.4 was, it could find it again even if the 5 was shouting.