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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
9 years ago
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HT2000W's 5Ghz radio not working.

I noticed in the past that the 5Ghz radio never showed up as a connection option in my laptop, nor in my notebook.  Today, I actively tried connecting both my laptop and notebook, and even my TV, to ...
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    GabeU
    9 years ago

    Okay.  Update.  

     

    The neighbors have a newer Lenovo Thinkpad that most definitely does have the ability to connect using the 5Ghz band.  It was brought over.  It turns out my modem is fine.  It connected without issue.  We didn't really try anything with it other than just going to Google and doing a quick search.  That was enough, though.  

     

    I feel like a schmuck.  LOL.  :( 

     

     

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Gwalk900
Honorary Alumnus
9 years ago

Hi Gabe,

A quickie checklist:

 

#1: Is the 5 Ghz tab selected?

#2: Is the 'radio' function turned on? (SSID Enable)

#3 Is the radio publicly discoverable? (SSID Broadcast

#4 Is an encryption type enabled that is accessable by your devices?

 

Off topiic but .... I'd use my own router.

 

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
9 years ago

Gwalk900

 

Yes to all.  I even changed some things with the security (like you suggested for older Wifi cards), and that didn't help, either.  It's like it's not transmitting at all.  There's nothing there.  

 

Edit.  I have my netgear router, but it's not dual band, so it wouldn't make any difference if I used it.  It doesn't matter right now, though, as even if it connected and everything was fine, I'd still use the 2.4Ghz radio.  I was just testing it.