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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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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.  

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jcollison251
Sophomore
9 years ago

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.