Man, I am feeling your pian on this as I have been having a lot of the same issues. have been trying to get it connected through my Eero mesh, tried to kill that and connect to my existing 2.4Ghz router, and, at this point, will try to buy a basic 2.4 GHz only router. At this point, I am ready to throw the GHL in the trash and go get a Neptune. Better support, better device integration, maybe harder to use interface, but, at this point there is no interface with the GHL! Glad you made it through it, would appreciate knowing if the squeeze in set up is worth the juice in actual use?