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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 ...
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. :(
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.
I am assuming you used two different SSIDs. I'd be tempted to temporarily disable 2.4Ghz and see if anything changes. Then I'd install a wardriving app or something similar on a 5GHz-capable device which shows me the nitty gritty on what's going over the air.
jcollison251 wrote:I am assuming you used two different SSIDs. I'd be tempted to temporarily disable 2.4Ghz and see if anything changes. Then I'd install a wardriving app or something similar on a 5GHz-capable device which shows me the nitty gritty on what's going over the air.
I have no clue as to what a wardriving app is, but I did disable the 2.4Ghz radio to make sure that the only thing that would be broadcasting is the 5Ghz radio. I first tried the standard method, then enabled the 5Ghz guest access, too. Nothing.
