help wanted : disable 2.4Ghz : linksys re2000

[Symbiot]

hi

as topic title..
anyone outthere know a way to disable the 2.4Ghz network on a linksys re2000?

I can't find anything in the webIF, so I am guessing we need some ssh access...

Anyone tried this?

 

[hggomes]

What FW? You must have an option to disable it.

 

[jtp10181]

I'm guessing you have the 2.0 hardware like I just got. I figured out how.
I did a factory reset on it.
Then connect and manually configure it.
Don't touch the 2.4 ghz settings.
After rebooting it I connected to the new ip my router assigned it and the 2.4ghz was not enabled according to the status page and the factory default ssid was not broadcasting.

 

[Symbiot]

Hi

Thank you for the replies.

jtp10181 - I tried your suggestion.. it seems that the 2.4Ghz is down (wlan statistics) but it is still broadcasting the ssid.
What has me a bit baffled is that if I connect to the 2.4Ghz ssid (which I didn't touch at all) I am getting an IP and I can bl**dy search the web as well.. so it's actually connecting to my router.. that makes NO sense to me.
On my router I disabled the 2.4Ghz radio so it shouldn't be able to connect.

 

[jtp10181]

Make sure you have firmware 2.0.00
The V1 of this device works differently, but that one you can only have one active channel at once so I assume you have the V2

An alternative would be to just set a REALLY long password on the 2.4Ghz and set it to some random fake SSID. You could still connect to it and it would relay you through the 5Ghz channel to the router, but at least its got a password so no one else can connect.

I wanted to totally disable 2.4Ghz because my building is already over saturated and I'm trying to be a good neighbor. Literally I can get full strength signal on 2.4Ghz at the furthest point but the noise is so high I get dial-up internet speeds.

Right now I can be right next to the RE2000 and fire up my wifi analyser on my phone and it does not see anything except the dozen neighbors wifi signals (on 2.4Ghz)

I turned on logging and this is all I get, nothing about 2.4Ghz

RE2000 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.12.1
RE2000
RE2000 5GHz Wireless
RE2000 MAC                AID BSS PSM WMM MIMOPS  RSSI0  RSSI1  RSSI2  PhMd      BW    MCS   SGI   STBC  Idle   Rate 
RE2000 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX  1   0   0   1   3       -76    -70    0      HTMIX     40M   13    0     0     0      216 
RE2000

Ok here is what I did and what it looks like -
1) Full Factory reset using button in GUI
2) Connect to LinksysExtender##### wifi to set it up
4) Never even took the CD out of the box, its probably useless, don't use it
3) http://192.168.1.1 : admin/admin to login
4) Left setup tab on DHCP alone
5) Wireless Tab - wait for site survey to load - DONT TOUCH ANYTHING
6) Switch to "Basic Wireless Settings" tab
7) Switch it to "Manual" mode
8) Fill in the 5Ghz info and dont touch the 2.4Ghz settings
9) Save and I think it reboots after that (otherwise reboot it manually)
10) I then checked my router for the IP it gave it, and connected to that.
11) Setup a static IP on the router for the DHCP so I always knew the IP it would get

 

[Symbiot]

Hi

Thank you for the thourough walk-through..
I followed it to the letter...
and while the settings and result does look like yours.. I am still seeing the ssid, and still able to connect to it and browse the internet etc... actually I am on the linksys 2.4Ghz network while I type this....
Really strange... I am at a loss..

 

[jtp10181]

See what your log says. Just wondering.

Just set a random SSID and a password I guess. Maybe it's a fluke that mine is disabled.

The reason it wants both working is to get full speed, by incoming connection on one channel and outbound on another channel. Otherwise it is split speed which works best for my situation.