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HOW to connect a GW2000, GW1x00 or WH2650 (clone) or other consoles to WiFi

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Rover1822:

--- Quote from: broadstairs on February 25, 2021, 05:13:55 PM ---I've been looking into this some more and if you really need to switch off 5ghz to set the device up it is very sloppy programming in the device itself if it only supports 2.4ghz as it should never see 5ghz. If it does both then I can see some benefit but what happens when the router is rebooted and the device reconnects? Recovery from a power failure could be problematic perhaps!

Stuart

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The information on turning off the 5 GHz on your router (IMHO), really only applies to those that have difficulty. I have 4 GW1000s , router is an ASUS RT AC87R (Actually 3 are on that router, the 4th is a crap DLINK dual band at my office). I have not had had to shut down the 5 GHz to setup the units. I do run the 2.4 and 5 on the same SSID. Once the information is set in the unit, never had a problem with router or device reboots. The information is primarily for those that have an issue and can't get the unit to connect. Of the 3 at the house , at some points I have moved them around for testing to 2 other access points I have (Asus AC1300s), which also have a different SSIDs from the main router, but are also dual band, no issue.

Think troubleshooting steps. We are talking about a sub $40 console/gateway that can do amazing things at that price. So, yes , maybe , there might be issues for some. Because these units do not have their own entry point for setup, like a screen, with little prompts to follow, they do require some more technical knowledge, like how to download and app to your phone, how to change your phone to the AP provided by the unit, etc.  And yes the phone portion is mandatory.

plunet:
I've personally never had any issue with needing to switch off 5Ghz WiFi in order to get 2.4Ghz IOT devices configured for WiFi, and I've probably done literally hundreds in various locations with various phones and WiFi networks over the years. Apart from the issue of smartphones being too 'smart' and ignoring WiFi connections with no internet access, I suspect people who do have difficulty must be because the router (or WiFi) is failing to bridge clients connected on 2.4G and 5G together at layer 2 on the same LAN, or the WiFi has a client isolation service enabled (unlikely for domestic WiFi).

Gyvate:

--- Quote from: broadstairs on February 25, 2021, 05:13:55 PM ---I've been looking into this some more and if you really need to switch off 5ghz to set the device up it is very sloppy programming in the device itself if it only supports 2.4ghz as it should never see 5ghz. If it does both then I can see some benefit but what happens when the router is rebooted and the device reconnects? Recovery from a power failure could be problematic perhaps!

Stuart

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reboot or restart after power failure (or intentional power disconnect) will not have the potential 5 GHz issue.
Once the connection to the router was once = one time established, it is remembered again.
After a factory reset (e.g. needed when you change your WiFi router) the pairing will be necessary again.

broadstairs:
You should only need to do this if the router is not set up identically to the old one. Anyone with any common sense changing router will set it up the same as the old one otherwise the GW1000 will not be the only device needing set up again. It's easier to set the router up once identically rather than having to go round all devices and change settings!

Stuart

wardie:
Interesting observations about 5GHz impact... I'm having a battle with stable WiFi connectivity of my HP2551C, unlike my GW1000s which are rock solid on WiFi. My main WiFi setup is a mesh pair of routers (master/slave), wired backhaul, exposing 2.4GHz and 5GHz-1 and 5GHz-2 as a tri-band system. Neat if it works. Anyway I can get all things connected fine but the HP2551C keeps on occasionally losing the WiFi connection, then struggles to reconnect. Obviously with the HP2551C you can enter the credential directly via the screen & buttons.

To try and isolate/fix this I ended up using a spare router to create a separate WiFi access point. I also switched the 5GHz radio off on it. But I still had the same sort of drop-off problems only with HP2551C. Having probed around in the AP settings it seems like that router was in a dual-band mode still even with 5GHz radio off. I've got a hunch something weird has been happening like the routers seem to want to move the HP2551C to 5GHz or something like that, which clearly it doesn't support.

Anyway I seem to have got it stable now by breaking up the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands on the AP, also disabling the 5GHz band too. I'm no WiFi expert to know how those protocols are negotiated but it may be a "feature" of how the WiFi radio chips and firmware Ecowitt use play nicely (or not) with my routers/AP - which is all Asus kit and [subjectivity warning] tries at times to be too clever for it's own good [/subjectivity warning].

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