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Nighthawk M5 - 2.4Ghz / 5Ghz /or Dual Band option
Hi all, forgive my inexperience with this forum and the way it is meant to work, my first forum, if memory serves right. I have entered the world of mobile routers and now have a Nighthawk M5 mobile...
In looking more at your unit, the primary reason is due to the battery. It uses dual band by default, but if all of your devices can use a specific band, you can disable one of the WiFi radios to save power.
For example, if you will be within range of the 5GHz radio and all of your devices support that band, then disabling 2.4GHz radio will save extend the battery life of the unit.
Thank you for your reply Razor,
I will need to do more homework.
some of the terminology used went over my head
In looking more at your unit, the primary reason is due to the battery. It uses dual band by default, but if all of your devices can use a specific band, you can disable one of the WiFi radios to save power.
For example, if you will be within range of the 5GHz radio and all of your devices support that band, then disabling 2.4GHz radio will save extend the battery life of the unit.
ok, that makes a great deal of sense, I do understand now. a big thankyou for your effort to explain!
helvetica wrote:
ok, that makes a great deal of sense, I do understand now. a big thankyou for your effort to explain!
Some old WiFi cilents, such as smart devices can only connect to 2.4Ghz WiFi. That is the device supports both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. You can set WiFi profile of the devices based on your WiFi clients.
2.4Ghz WiFi can provide wider coverage, but speed is slower than 5G WiFi.
Thanks