cant find 5G
on my desktop my router has 5ghz but i cant find it in the list of connections i find the regular one but not 5g, i can find it in my phone and laptop... i tried rebooting the modem router and desktop..can you help? thanks win 10 btw
Your laptop must have an AC wireless card or comparable, and the desktop is likely N. Can you try a faster wireless card in the Desktop
I have such a router and that is how it works for me.
I have such a router and that is how it works for me.
802.11N Supports 5G just as well as 802.11AC,
If OP was talking about speed, I might've agreed with you in regard of the WIFI Standard being used, It has however nothing to do with frequencies.
(I will point out however that because of the way the 802.11g standard operated, it can't read 5 GHz networks at all, but N and AC will work just fine with either 5 GHz or 2.4 GHz)
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If OP was talking about speed, I might've agreed with you in regard of the WIFI Standard being used, It has however nothing to do with frequencies.
(I will point out however that because of the way the 802.11g standard operated, it can't read 5 GHz networks at all, but N and AC will work just fine with either 5 GHz or 2.4 GHz)
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IEEE 802.11n-2009, commonly shortened to 802.11n, is a wireless-networking standard that uses multiple antennas to increase data rates. Sometimes referred to as MIMO, which stands for "multiple input and multiple output", it is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11-2007 wireless-networking standard. Its purpose is to improve network throughput over the two previous standards—802.11a and 802.11g—with a significant increase in the maximum net data rate from 54 Mbit/s to 600 Mbit/s (slightly higher gross bit rate including for example error-correction codes, and slightly lower maximum throughput) with the use of four spatial streams at a channel width of 40 MHz.[1][2] 802.11n standardized support for multiple-input multiple-output, frame aggregation, and security improvements, among other features. It can be used in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz frequency bands.
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the thing is the 5g showed up when i first got the new modem and router ,just checked recently and its not there!
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i checked for update there was none,unistalled it and rebooted, it reistalled and stiil no 5g..
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That very much depends on the computers hardware, not on the operating system.
If the wireless antenna on the computer can only detect 2.4 GHz frequencies, you won't see the 5 GHz ones.
What wireless antenna have you got installed in your desktop?
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There does not appear to be any workable solution here, so I suggest the question be deleted.
If the wireless antenna on the computer can only detect 2.4 GHz frequencies, you won't see the 5 GHz ones.
What wireless antenna have you got installed in your desktop?