Windows 10: Windows 10 connects to my old 2.4ghz network instead of 5ghz

If you want to delete one use this command in an administrator's command prompt. Code: netsh wlan delete profile name="[PROFILE NAME]"[/quote] I would probably delete all the profile's and start over with a clean slate, Then connect to the 5 GHz network.

Make another profile for the 5 GHz network with the priority if it does not work as expected[/quote] I just did that.. so now it only shows one profile which is the 5 ghz network.. so far so good

 

I guess you're right, I remember my router had such an option but I checked and there's no way to deny/allow on one frequency only, so I have to assume that my post was wrong, sorry! *Sad

 

As your router obviously has 5, i'd go to device manger >> open the Advanced tab for the driver, check to see if you can just pick 5Ghz.

Roy

 

It says i can choose between 802.11g/b and 802.11a

 

Then your looking at the wrong line,
see my highlighted.

Roy

 

Im looking at prefered band which is what you highlited with your screengrab

 

NO thats WIRELESS mode. NOT preferred band
screenpost advanced

Roy

 

Post the complete text output of netsh wlan show all.

 

We do not need preferred band or settings for Windows Wireless Zero Config and hardware info. We need the information from the command window of netsh wlan show all. It will show the adapter bands, if it is only wireless-b/g/n 2.4 or wireless-a/b/g/n. The other is that it would show us the driver installed and hardware info.

 

I solved this by disabling th SSID on the 2.4ghz network as well as deleting all the old network profiles.

 

You might have to enable it again if you have a device that cannot use 5GHz, If you enable it again I would give it a different name I usually name my ssd's the same but add 5GHz for that band you could add 2.4GHz for yours.

 

I still have a problem. Disabling the 2.4ghz networks has helped me preventing windows from connecting to it, but windows has created a new problem instead. It takes several minutes for windows to connect to the internet when I boot my computer and sometimes I have to run the windows network diagnostics program and everytime I do that it finds a problem with the wireless adapter or access point and corrects it.

 

Uninstall the network drivers and device and let Windows install the default. Also enable the SSID for the 2.4ghz, since some wifi routers/AP's need the 2.4ghz band in conjunction with the 5ghz to allow for MIMO and faster speeds.

 

Im going to mark this as solved since the original problem is solved and create a new thread instead.