I had two different SSIDs for my 2.4ghz and 5ghz wireless networks- I think because I've had issues with devices not working correctly on 5ghz, but in the end, I had every device on the 2.4ghz SSID, ...
tldr: Devices connected to the 2.4GHz band can't talk to devices connected to the 5GHz band even when they are on the same subnet. Why? For background, I had always had separate SSIDs for 2.4GHz and ...
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