2.4G and 5G on same SSID

[newcbomb]

Right Now my SSIDs are set as follows:

 

MyName 2.4G

MyName 5G

MyName Guest

MyName Guest 5G

 

In theory, could i set it all to MyName and MyName Guest with 2.4G and 5G bands on the same ssid? Thanks. 

[xriqn]

Its possible. Both my 2.4G and 5G are on same SSID.

[Tabs]

51 minutes ago, newcbomb said:

Right Now my SSIDs are set as follows:

 

MyName 2.4G

MyName 5G

MyName Guest

MyName Guest 5G

 

In theory, could i set it all to MyName and MyName Guest with 2.4G and 5G bands on the same ssid? Thanks. 

There's no technical reason why they can't be the same - they are normally named differently because it makes it easy to discern at a glance what band of network you're connecting to even from a device that doesn't show it by default.

 

Just be aware that on devices where you have access to both 2.4g and 5g bands, you'll still see 4 networks - two named MyName and two named MyName Guest. There's no way to "merge" those, if that's what you were curious about.

[beersykins]

You'd want some kind of band steering for 2.4 GHz so that devices choose 5 GHz.

 

Otherwise there isn't any reason you can't combine them, without band steering it's kind of a toss up which band each host associates with.

[Alex Atkin UK]

A lot of WiFi APs used to do this but its generally considered a bad idea as clients aren't intelligent enough to connect to 5Ghz if the 2.4Ghz is a stronger signal, which it almost always is due to how 5Ghz attenuates even through air faster than 2.4Ghz.

Typically 5Ghz at half the signal strength of 2.4Ghz will still give faster performance due to the more modern WiFi standard and less interference, so you REALLY want to make sure its connecting to 5Ghz whenever possible.  Combining them prevents you being able to do that and you will almost certainly run into low-speed issues.