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    New Laptop Not Seeing 5ghz Band

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by decado, Dec 1, 2009.

  1. decado

    decado Newbie

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    So I just got a dual band router so that I can connect my Toshiba A505 laptop to it (has a 802.11n card in it) and now it's only seeing the 2.4ghz 802.11g band. How do I get this thing to see the 5ghz band?
     
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    what card you have in laptop ? not all Ncards have 5 ghz band
     
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    Realtek RTL8191SE. If I can't get the card to see the 5ghz band then how do I possibly get it to connect to N on mixed 2.4ghz? I've asked the question on several forums, searched the hell out of the internet and I can't seem to find any way to connect to N on G and N mixed. I don't even see the point of there being N mixed with other types if this is the case. I sure hope this network card is capable of the 5ghz band because if not it made my purchase of the DIR-825 completely pointless.
     
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    Also, in my laptops manual it says it's capable of the 5ghz band.
     
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    jerry66, Dec 2, 2009
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