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RBR750 WiFi6 Connection
I recently purchased an HP Envy Laptop with a WiFi6 (802.11ax) card. It appears that when I'm connected to my Orbi mesh system with WiFi6, the laptop is only running at WiFi5. How can I establish a WiFi6 connection? This is the only device on my network, besides my Amazon Firestick, with this capability.
a couple things off that.
You're connected to the 2.4ghz and not 5ghz. The orbi's do bandsteering and move devices between the 2.4ghz and the 5ghz based on their own protocol. I think in windows theres an option in the device manager for that wifi card to select "prefer 5ghz"
You won't "show" that your connected to wifi 6 routers/devices but its based on link speed. And most 2.4ghz routers use 20/40hz coexistence (neighbor friendly) so its actually a pretty good speed if you're connecting on that with a 2x2 device.
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What makes you think its connected at "wifi 5"?
Details, screensnips, whatever info you can give us help more than what we have to go off currently.
This is what I see in my network settings for the new HP:
SSID: CAMELITTLE
Protocol: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
Security type: WPA2-Personal
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Description: Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz
Driver version: 22.60.0.6
Network band: 2.4 GHz
Network channel: 5
Link speed (Receive/Transmit): 287/287 (Mbps)
Link-local IPv6 address:
IPv4 address:
IPv4 DNS servers:
Physical address
I cannot see anything saying Connection to WiFi6. It tells me my hardware is ready for it, but nothing else.
a couple things off that.
You're connected to the 2.4ghz and not 5ghz. The orbi's do bandsteering and move devices between the 2.4ghz and the 5ghz based on their own protocol. I think in windows theres an option in the device manager for that wifi card to select "prefer 5ghz"
You won't "show" that your connected to wifi 6 routers/devices but its based on link speed. And most 2.4ghz routers use 20/40hz coexistence (neighbor friendly) so its actually a pretty good speed if you're connecting on that with a 2x2 device.