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It is, but ... It's awkward enough in enough situations that self-configuring wifi routers or wifi mesh devices such as "Eero" gave up forcing both bands under

It is, but ... It's awkward enough in enough situations that self-configuring wifi routers or wifi mesh devices such as "Eero" gave up forcing both bands under one SSID and now have a special trouble-shooting mode where they disable the 5Ghz SSID in order to allow you to discover / configure craptacular IoT WiFi devices. Then it re-enables 5GHz after 15 minutes and the bad device will stick on 2.4.

jrm4 4y ago
Just got fiber to the home and they gave me a free Eero (and more or less imply to the non-power users "this is what you use now") Despite my old situation being an absurd mess of repeaters and powerline ethernet, it's still a better experience than the Eero. I went back to the old stuff. (ps, definitely don't want to knock Metronet. They've been GREAT so far. I've had NO troubles at all being a power user, i.e. getting Static IP and such set up)