Windows 10: Wifi extenders - 2.4 and 5Ghz - huge speed difference

Hi folks

just of note to anybody playing around with Wifi extenders and bog standard wifi cards in laptops

Connecting by wifi to 2.4 GHZ band on the extender -- was only able to get laptop up to around 30 Mbps -- on the 5 GHZ it was up to 205 Mbps.

Huge difference on bog standard laptop with older wifi card built into it (5GHZ capable though) connected to a wifi extender -- note the wifi extender was dual band and the router had also both 2.4 and 5GHZ enabled.

If you go for these extenders get a dual band version one and also see if it does the wifi Tx in full duplex mode as well.
There's a lot of people out there who *Could* be using 5GHZ but haven't got around to it yet -- certainly worth while if you are anywhere a distance from your home router

BTW using a switch (cheap / unmanaged) with a USB->lan adapter gives far quicker results too with a decent wifi extender such as Nighthawk types. If you use the unmanaged switch then enable DHCP in the router.

Advantage of the switch and LAN to the wifi extender is that for the wifi part even a 2.4GHZ only device can make use of the faster speed with the switch and 5GHZ band . However just using purely wifi with an extender 5GHZ is clearly much the better option --especially as extenders usually slow down speeds anyway.

Cheers

jimbo

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Windows 10 not able to find 5ghz wifi.

Hello everyone,

I have Dell Inspiron N5110 with Windows 10 (64 bit). I have Airtel 100 mbps connection.

When I can connect my laptop with LAN cable I can use the speed of 100 Mbps but while I use it on WiFi I can only see the 2.5 ghz connection on that speed is very poor and laptop don't show the option of 5ghz in wifi list.

1. Same happens with my office router and home router.

2. I have tried the Device manager> network adapter> right click properties> advanced> It does not show any options of 5ghz

3. I have Dell Wireless 1702 802.11b|g|n

Please Help. Thanks in advance for answers.

 

Do all ISP's throttle speeds/WiFi Blast?

That is a whole different subject from the ISP speed.
I have 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz also and do not know how combining them would work but really don't know.

Jim

 

Lumia 950XL 5GHz wifi issue

Thanks for your replay Mr. Jack but I have tried everything resetting my phone, router also but I have never seen my phone show the 5Ghz networks....!!! Anything else u can suggest?? It works well with the 2.5Ghz network...!! I have other phones at home which
connects to the 5Ghz network and works fine..!! It's only my 950xl which doesn't show the 5Ghz network...!!