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Orbi not connecting devices to 5 gh
On my computer I have 5 Gh able network adapter. But while connecting to the Orbi i can not chose what band i connect to. This is very irritating. Im getting ready to retun the Orbi and buy a 150 ft ...
The Sat is one wall over from my room. I have a 5 gh capable device. I have connected to the 5 Gh channel before. When i unplug the wireless adapter it connects to the 2.4 channel and i can not force it to the 5 gh channel.
Gooobey wrote:
The Sat is one wall over from my room. I have a 5 gh capable device. I have connected to the 5 Gh channel before. When i unplug the wireless adapter it connects to the 2.4 channel and i can not force it to the 5 gh channel.
i dont understand the second part of that sentance , when you unplug the wireless adapter how does it work at all ?
I have a similar issue with a PC which has a 2.4/5GHz wifi adapter. It keeps connecting to 2.4 GHz bacuase the signal strength is slightly better than 5GHz
What I ended up doing was to go into the driver settings for the wifi adapter on the PC and force it to only work on 5GHz. I then get a solid 5GHz connection.
It's a shame that you can't do this in the Orbi setup. It would save a lot of pain.
Could you guide me in a direction for me to do this?
I did the following:
- on the PC open the "device manager"
- In the device manager, open the list of "Network Adapters"
- One item in your list will be your WIFI adapter
- Right click on the adapter, and select "properties"
- Select the "advanced" tab and you will have a list of the properties that you can change.
- The exact list will depend on the wifi adapter that you have in your PC,
- My laptop has a selection for "preferred band" which I set to 5GHz.
- My desktop has something called "wireless mode" that I set to 802.11ac
- Your setup will likely have something different, but browsing through the options should reveal one which forces it to 5GHz
I hope that helps.
For me, both machines are working just great on 5GHz where they appeared to randomly switch between 2.4 and 5 previously.
