Hi,

This is a good idea, right now the Deco's 2.4G wifi name must be the same with the 5G wifi name, there is only a individual switch for them.

Thank you for your feedback, we will evaluate it.

The single name for 2.4 and 5 couldn’t be a problem, i think its a good feature but is important to force a devices to connect on 2.4 or 5.

hope this will be introduce in a future update

Gotcha, would forward it to our R&D department with other suggestions provided in another article. 

Good day. 

@Kevin_Z 

Do you have any finished solution? Because my Samsung TV always switch to 2.4GHz after an hour. And the TV's bandwidth is too small on 2.4GHz. I need turn off my Deco P7's 2.4GHz manually and reconnect the TV to the 5GHz also manually. The possibility to use different SSID for 2.4 and 5GHz should be a solution too.

Thanks and Best Regards

Any new on this ?

Actually I have to use a second modem to my smart home switch because it not recognize the 2.4Mhz network only the 5Mhz, and because the name is the same my switch don't try to find a 2.4Mhz network with the same name and send me the message  " cant connect to 5Mhz network only 2.4Mhz please change network". So I have to use a second modem (Not deco) working on 2.4Mhz.

I have originally buy the Deco because it is supposed to work on both band but because the same name, some devices don't recognize the 2.4Mhz network.

It is not a problem of setup because I have only 1 device that connect to the 2.4 Mhz network, so, it is working but not all device can find 2 network with same name.

Thank You.

@Kevin_Z Any update on this? I've got some IOT devices which lose connection with 5ghz enabled. I don't want to disable 5ghz all together.

@kbarendrecht 

The workaround is to enable Guest WiFi network, configure it to be 2.4GHz only, and connect IOT devices to Guest network.

TP-Link...any update?  Most of my devices that are able to connect via 5ghz are connected to 2.4.  Any work around for this?