Swift-R Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I have a Cisco Aironet 1140 AP which supports Dual Band 5GHz and a new Dual Band wireless USB adapter, the TP-Link TL-WDN3200. To check which frequency it is currently using I downloaded WirelessMon and It says it's using 2.5GHz instead of 5GHz. How can I force my adapter to use the 5GHz? TPreston 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted January 22, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted January 22, 2013 do you have the router set to broadcast the 5GHz signal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift-R Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 do you have the router set to broadcast the 5GHz signal? Do you mean the AP? I haven't touched any settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted January 22, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted January 22, 2013 Do you mean the AP? I haven't touched any settings. yeah, I'd check the setting on there to make sure that 5GHz isn't turned off by default (don't know why it would be but it's good to check your bases) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift-R Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Yes, the setting is turned ON on the AP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted January 22, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted January 22, 2013 what about the same "force 5GHz" setting on the network adapter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I'm assuming you have to tell the adapter which frequency takes precedence. More than likely if both are broadcast, it will default to the 2.4GHz spectrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Til I Die Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Am I missing something? My router broadcasts two different SSID's. I called one "Matt" and the other "Matt (5GHz)," then I just connect to the 5GHz one when I want to and it's done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris123NT Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I've never personally bothered with 5 ghz. It always seems to have a worse signal when compared to 2.4 GHZ bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Til I Die Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I've never personally bothered with 5 ghz. It always seems to have a worse signal when compared to 2.4 GHZ bands. That's a well known fact, but the frequency is less crowded and you get faster speeds on it if you're close to the router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 You need a better Wireless status monitor, 5ghz won't fall between any of those channels. Just use Windows to scan for a wifi signal, does your 5ghz SSID show up in the list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift-R Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 You need a better Wireless status monitor, 5ghz won't fall between any of those channels. Just use Windows to scan for a wifi signal, does your 5ghz SSID show up in the list? No. I have changed it to 5GHz Only in the adapter properties and Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector lists a 5300MHz band but doesn't show up on Windows wireless monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUTZIFER Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Well going by your screenshot, you have "homeN" highlighted, so I would assume that's your router, and there's 2 listed, so the other one is more than likely the 5ghz connection. Oh I guess someone mentioned that. Isn't there another name you can manually enter to connect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift-R Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Alright it's connected to the 5GHz band now. I changed 2.4GHz to channel 14 (to basically disable it) and that's why it wasn't working, reverting it back to the default setting fixed it. It's probably a bug in the drivers (they're beta). Windows 8 doesn't need external drivers for this adapter to work but I only get the 5G Only band option with the TP-Link beta drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 channel 14 is illegal in most places, and try inSSIDer, much better than the thing in your screenshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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