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How to Connect to 5GHz Channel?
Hi, I've got a WNDR3700v2 that's an access point for an XP and a Win7. On the Win7 machine, I can only connect to the 2.4GHz channel. When I click on the signal bars in the task panel and bring up ...
jmizoguchi wrote: pc must support dual band (dual band wifi adapter )
Thanks for the reply June. Here's my computer adapter info from msinfo. It doesn't specifically say "dual band", but since it mentions b, g and n, I assumed it was. What's your opinion?
Name [00000011] Dell Wireless 1502 802.11b/g/n
Adapter Type Ethernet 802.3
Product Type Dell Wireless 1502 802.11b/g/n
Installed Yes
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_002B&SUBSYS_02041028&REV_01\001517FFFF24141200
Last Reset 2/10/2012 3:41 PM
Index 11
Service Name athr
IP Address 192.168.1.7, fe80::18aa:5efc:58f8:f334
IP Subnet 255.255.255.0, 64
Default IP Gateway 192.168.1.1
DHCP Enabled Yes
DHCP Server 192.168.1.1
DHCP Lease Expires 3/13/2012 11:58 PM
DHCP Lease Obtained 2/12/2012 10:58 PM
MAC Address E4:D5:3D:88:2F:2E
Memory Address 0xFE400000-0xFE4FFFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 17
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\athrx.sys (9.1.0.328, 2.26 MB (2,374,656 bytes), 12/5/2011 3:57 PM)