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DanHargrave
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Feb 08, 2017
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How do I tell if my router is dual-band?

N300 Wireless Gigabit Router model WNR3500L

  • its easy to know

     

    by default all wifi bands are enabled when your multi-band router is on until you manually disable a band

     

    so long as you know the wifi SSID of your router, if it is dual band then you will see the SSID of the router repeated with a suffix to differentiate the 2.4GHz from the 5Ghz band i.e 'netgearXX' and 'netgearXX-5G'

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  • its easy to know

     

    by default all wifi bands are enabled when your multi-band router is on until you manually disable a band

     

    so long as you know the wifi SSID of your router, if it is dual band then you will see the SSID of the router repeated with a suffix to differentiate the 2.4GHz from the 5Ghz band i.e 'netgearXX' and 'netgearXX-5G'

    • DanHargrave's avatar
      DanHargrave
      Aspirant

      I only see one place to enter the SSID so I can assume it has only one band, 2.4GHz.  Thank you very much!!!