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Multiple XWN5001 Access Points
My question is whether I've got this set up correctly. I have purchased three of the powerline 500 Units that each come with an XAV5201 Adapter and an XWN5001 Access Point. I plugged ONE of t...
How were you able to connect the XWN5001 to a 5Ghz band? I have a dual band router and every time I log into both the router and the Powerline genie it doesn't seem to give me the option to select either the 2.4 or the 5. Just seems to automatically select the 2.4band. I can't find anything on this.
Crnolan wrote:
How were you able to connect the XWN5001 to a 5Ghz band?The XWN5001 won't connect to a 5Ghz band. It is a wifi source. Then again, does the XWN5001 do 5GHz? The manual doesn't say which wifi bands it uses.
Re: Powerline 500 XWN5001 - NETGEAR Communities
If you mean that you have wifi clients that do not see 5GHz from the XWN5001 then check that the client can see 5 GHz. Some older equipment is limited to the older 2.4GHz band.
