Windows 10: Wifi 6 2x2 Simultaneous Connections

Hi,


I have AC dual band router, and my laptop has Intel wifi 6 AX201 running on Windows 10.


How do i connect to both 2.4 ghz as well as 5.0 ghz simultaneously. I understand 802.11ax is capable of 2x2 and hence this is possible.


Thanks.

:)

 

WiFi 6 Questions

Performed a number of upgrades over the past few days...

I upgraded the 512GB NVMe SSD in my laptop to a 1TB Seagate Firecuda NVMe SSD, replaced the WiFi 5 adapter in the laptop with a WiFi 6 adapter, and replaced my router with a pair ASUS WiFi "AiMesh" units.

Everything is up and working but there are a few things related to WiFi 6 that I'm trying to understand and figure out. If there is anyone out there with some WiFi 6 experience, I'd like to hear your thoughts.

NOTE: Before reading further, I just want to emphasize that I am not experiencing any problems. In fact, the opposite is true. I see greatly improved performance. My goal here is to better understand how Windows shows and reports WiFi information and to locate a WiFi analysis tool that understands WiFi 6.

Question 1: With WiFi 5, I was used to seeing the maximum connection speed as 866 Mbps as in the screenshot below.





With WiFi 6 I'm seeing the same thing but I had expected that I would see a higher speed. However, with WiFi 6 I notice one difference: In the second screenshot below, note that my WiFi SSID is "Proper-5G" but Windows shows "Proper-5G 2" (note the added "2" at the end).





After thinking about this a while, I have a theory, I'm just wondering if anyone can confirm this:

My theory is that the "2" indicates that I have 2 simultaneous 5 Ghz connections to the router. The reason that the connection speed shows no faster than it did with WiFi 5 is that I am still connecting at 866 Mbps, BUT, that I have 2 such connections simultaneously.

Does this sound correct or am I completely misunderstanding this?

Question 2: There are number of utilities available from the Microsoft Store that perform WiFi analysis, doing things such as showing your connection and all the bands and network IDs in use in the area. However, not one of the utilities I found seems to be WiFi 6 aware. Anyone know of any decent WiFi analysis tools that support WiFi 6?

Other Details:

Windows version: Win 10 Pro 1909 with all the latest Microsoft updates.
WiFi adapter installed in laptop: Intel AX200
Router: Pair of ASUS RT-AX92U Wireless AX6100 Tri Band routers in a mesh configuration.

 

When will the wifi connectivity problems be solved?


OK, so the Windows 10 engineers bollixed up the wifi connectivity part of the operating system. Everybody knows that by now. It seems they are making some progress in resolving it. Now, instead of seeing "Secured, No Internet" on your list of wifi connections, you see "Connected, Secured" EXCEPT no webpages will load. So you really aren't connected. It does seem to be a step in the right direction. Does anybody know when they plan on a full and complete repair of this screw up of epic proportions?

 

When will the wifi connectivity problems be solved?

Hi Wabbles and welcome to Tenforums.

I've got 4 systems connecting via wireless; all adapters are different makes; all have zero issues, and two of them are old (wireless-G only). Most every issue I have seen with wireless connections has been driver-related. (Or, impending router failure.) I would suggest identifying your adapter model/make, and searching for different drivers that you can try out. And, sometimes an older driver works better than a newer one (just had this issue on a system I was working on yesterday). Also, verify you have these same connection issues when connecting to different routers, just to rule that out.