Model R7000 How can I turn on 5GHZ or how do I know if the 5GHZ is being used?

[Steveturner]

I want to make sure my laptop is using the 5ghz band. But I don't know how to tell the router to do that.

[IrvSp · Accepted solution]

You DO NOT tell the router to do that, you tell the Laptop what SSID to connect to. Obviously you do not set both SSID's to the name.

[IrvSp · Accepted solution]

You DO NOT tell the router to do that, you tell the Laptop what SSID to connect to. Obviously you do not set both SSID's to the name.

[michaelkenward]

This came up here not long ago. On investigation, the owner of the laptop found that their PC did not actually support 5G.

[Steveturner]

My Dell laptop does support 2.4 and 5GHZ and the router does too. I just wasn't sure how to tell if and when 5GHZ was being used.