Wireless G Band
Bartie Spalitto
Wireless was formed in 1976 by bassist Allan Marshall, guitarist Steve McMurray and drummer Glenn Beatson, who had played together in an Australian pop music band, Autumn.[1][2] They released a self-titled album on the Atlantic label which included some original songs.[3]
The band's album Positively Human Relatively Sane did not sell well; the next album, No Static, was produced by Geddy Lee (of the band RUSH). RUSH were friends with, and supporters of, Wireless. The band would tour with RUSH several times in the late 1970s. Wireless' albums were later remastered and released by Rock Candy Records.[5]
I have my router set up to work on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz using the same SSID in dual-band mode. Sometimes, when I am on the edge of the 5GHz range, I suspect that my very poor internet performance is due to my Mac Book connecting to the 5GHz band instead of the 2.4GHz.
How can I determine which band my laptop is connected to so that I can confirm or refute my hypothesis here? If my hypothesis turns out to be true, how can I force my Mac running OS X Yosemite, to switch over to the 2.4GHz band to get better performance when at the edge of 5GHz reception? How do I release this forced connection to 2.4GHz when I leave this region on the edge of reception for 5GHz?
Channels 1 to 11 (higher in some regions) are in the 2.4 GHz range. Channels 36 and up are in the 5Ghz range. Channels numbers from 36 to 48 have restricted power when used with multiple antennas. If you can administer the router, try moving to a higher channel on the 5GHz range.
If you can determine the channel number you can determine which band you are on. Again if you can administer the router you may be able to setup different SSIDs for each frequency range. This will allow you to select the frequency range by SSID.
Set 2 different SSIDs in your router (that's my setup at home). Then test both by just using the network as you normally would. Then to force the Mac to switch, just switch networks on the wifi menu in OS X. I realize this might not be the answer you're looking for but it does cover everything you asked.
I have an HP Spectre x360 15t with Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 and I seem to have trouble maintaining a stable wireless connection when I move further away from the wifi router. I use a tri-band Linksys router supporting 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands. The problem occurs when I move from the living room, which is close to the router and gets a strong 5Ghz signal, to my office which is further away from the router. My house is no very large but I'd guess it's about 50 feet from the office to the router. In the office, the laptop will start using a 2.4Ghz band and have a good signal. No problem. Then, for reasons I haven't determined, will switch to the 5Ghz band and the signal quality drops dramatically. After some time, it might decide to switch back again. This is causing drops, slowness, etc. and is quite frustrating. I am using the same SSID on each band and I understand the device will try to use the best connection, but it should always be using the 2.4Ghz band in my opinion and never get confused. Is there a way to ensure its using the right band without having different SSIDs?
I have multiple routers in my home (to handle issues between multiple stories rather than distance) and initially I set them up so that the same SSIDs were used by both (though, in my case, it was one SSID for 2.4GHz and another for 5.0GHz). What I found is that this caused confusion in my portable devices (both laptop and Samsung phone) and it would stick with a connection rather than switch to a better one when I moved around. I found that reconfiguring with separate SSIDs alleviated this confusion.
I wonder if using the same SSID for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz is causing a similar confusion? I don't see any reason why you cannot switch to separate SSIDs. The laptop (and other devices) can always have entries in its wireless table for both SSIDs and then can make (hopefully) seamless switches between them based upon connection quality...
We understand that your computer will roam between the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands depending on your location around the house. Depending on your router model, this may be controlled automatically by the router, which may select which band a device connects to based on it's own algorithm. If this is the case, following the recommendation provided by N. Scott Pearson, to broadcast each frequency with a separate SSID, should resolve the problem.
Thanks very much for the responses. I figured there was something related to band steering in the router that was causing the issue but was hoping it could be overridden on the client. I also found references to RSSI and wondered if there was a way to control this in the client so that it would stick to 2.4. Anyway, I will experiment with setting preferred to 2.4g to see if it still uses 5g when I'm closer to the router but stay at 2.4g when I'm in the office, which would be ideal. I had already set roaming aggressiveness to the lowest setting.
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I have a Lenovo Z51-70 with an Intel Dual Band wireless-AC 3160 and a Technicolor Modem. The wi-fi keeps disconnecting, or rather, cannot be detected at all after few hours of work. I found some sort of "turn-around solution", that is to say uninstalling the drivers of the network adapter and restart my PC.
I've tried everything, even changing the settings of the adapter (clean driver installation from intel download centre, 2,4 GHz instead of 5; Disabling Bluetooth, changing power settings, Disabling U-APDS, Set other wireless and HT modes, and so on...) but NOTHING seems to work...
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Thank a million Scott! You are really kind to share these drivers. I was having exactly the same problem as ZicVan after performing a factory reset on my Dell Inspiron 5548 which has the same wireless adapter, viz. Intel Dual Band wireless-AC 31600. The laptop simply refused to see my Orbi RBR750 router although all newer laptops and handheld devices could easily connect to it. I was at my wits end, searching for a solution on the net until I came across this thread. After installing the WiFi_21.10.1_64_Win10 update, the connection is working perfectly. Once, thanks a lot.
You are welcome. It's too bad that Intel has taken this 'what have you bought from us lately' attitude towards customer support. They blame it on legal repercussions (if it's old, it must have security issues), but I don't buy that at all.
Just got my Eero 6 Pro three pack on Wednesday. Setup was easy. I configured my Eero with the same name and password as my previous WiFi setup and pretty much every device connected to the Eero without problem. However my work laptop doesn't even see the network. When try to connect I see a few other networks from neighbors, but my own doesn't show up. I went in and "Forgot" the network thinking that would clear it up, but still nothing. I tried to manually configure the network and it can't find it.
This is very frustrating because, so far, other than this one laptop the Eero 6 Pro set up is working excellent. However I can't just get a new work laptop, and remoting from home is absolutely essential. I hate to have to return this because of this one issue. Please help!
Hey weeeezzll - thanks for posting! This wireless card is one that Intel has driver updates for specifically around this issue, where they're unable to 'see' 802.11ax networks: -and-i-o/wireless.html
We have a tool in the app that should help get the device connected so you can update the driver. There's more information in this article, but here are the steps:
Having said that, it is worth noting that throughput (speed) is not the same as Download/Upload speed. Online speed tests will generate a small amount of random data and measure the time it takes to upload it to (or download it from) the web server. This result will be displayed in bits per second.
Download and upload speeds will be affected by the capacity of your wireless access point, computer's networking specifications, bandwidth (ISP), user congestion, network overhead, neighboring networks using the same channels, etc. In other words, wireless networks do not perform anywhere near the maximum data rate product/ISP marketing advertises.
If your computer is running with the latest Windows* 10 updates and drivers, then what we can recommend is that you contact your OEM for further support and warranty options in case a similar system (i.e a computer with an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 installed) performs better in the same network environment.
Also, we recommend that you contact your router/access point manufacturer to make sure it is running with a configuration that can benefit systems with different networking specifications. Besides, they may install a new firmware update for your router/AP if available.
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