Appliances & Connected Home

[hockeycanuckjc Community Veteran]

Has anyone successfully setup the Echo Dot 3rd Gen with the Xfinity XFI Gateway? I want to know their experiences. I found our Echo dot that my husband and I thought we lost in the move to the new apartment and ordered a smart plug but noticed the XFI Gateway is only one Wifi network name.

On the old setup we had, I actually had a router that had 2.4 and 5ghz bands and this router from Xfinity seems to have them combined.

Have to get this setup as the clapper is not working too well to turn on and off the lights. Its all about accessibility for him at this time.

[bobberuchi]

Chances are you will need to go into the setting for the router and temporarily disable 5 Ghz.  

Many devices that you can get today with Smart Technology seem to only connect if you are in 2.4 Ghz.

Most dual band routers should have the ability to turn off 5.0 temporarily.  Mine will turn it off for 15 minutes and the turn it back on. 

[hockeycanuckjc Community Veteran · Accepted solution]

I guess I answered my own question just now with TP Link Kasa and the Alexa App. I did not need to disable anything. It discovered our internet just fine. I had to download the Kasa App first in order to to link the Smart Plug Mini to our internet. Then I had to enable the Kasa Skill with the Alexa App and finally link it. Had to clear out all the garbage lost during the move. So all in all it worked it was maybe a 7 minute thing.

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