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So I went into that menu and the settings for the 5Ghz were as you show in your example.  So I figure to enable the 5Ghz, I have to DISABLE the 2.4Ghz.  I did that by UN-checking the block for 2.4 at the top of that screen.   Lo and behold, I cannot connect to anything - internet down.  Now what?  One hour and 45 minutes later, the HughesNet help desk people repaired the problem.   Note - my Ralink WiFi adapter in my laptop is model RT5390 802.11b/g/n.  Big incompatablility.  I could not get back to the router to RE-check the block on the ADVANCED SETUP --> Wireless screen.  The reset button on the back of the router does not reset back to factory defaults, which I would have thought that it would,    Soooooo, for me, lesson learned.   ... View more

Hi Mr. MarkJFine.  I've looked at every menu and just cannot find where to make this change.  I really just don't know what I am looking for.  I would really like to go to 5GHz, the 802.11ac well maybe, I don't know.   If I can change one of them at a time, that would assist my analysis.   Can you help this ol' fella? ... View more

Whoa..... let me take that back.  After I wrote this, I read some of the other comments from people who also had bad performance issues.  One of them said to change the "WPA Mode" (to WPA/WPA2).  Well, I did and then performed the testmynet tests for down and uploads.   Surprise - surprise - surprise. Last night I saw a download rate of 41.0Mbps.   My Goodness     ... View more