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| 1404477 | 2015-07-11 22:24:00 | Good morning, Team, My home network with 3 PCs - 2-wired and 1-wireless, and a laptop -wireless. They are working perfectly well as they should when the wireless machines are connected to the 2.4GHz; but when they switched over to 5GHz connection, other machines can't 'see' them. My wireless Router has dual-band, 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Is there a way to network them regardless of their band connection (whether they are connected to 2.4GHz or 5GHz)? Possible at all? |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1404478 | 2015-07-12 00:45:00 | One possible cause: Have a read-- . tp-link . com/en/FAQ-499 . html" target="_blank">www . tp-link . com AND Disadvantages of 5GHz: In general, the higher the frequency of a wireless signal, the shorter its range . Thus, 2 . 4GHz networks cover a substantially larger range than 5GHz wireless networks . In particular, the higher frequency wireless signals of 5GHz networks do not penetrate solid objects nearly as well as 2 . 4GHz signals, limiting their reach inside buildings with solid walls and floors . Recent 802 . 11ac devices, however, are able to mitigate some of this disatvantage by using beamforming . Quoted from . speedguide . net/faq/is-5ghz-wireless-better-than-24ghz-340" target="_blank">www . speedguide . net |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1404479 | 2015-07-12 02:13:00 | When connected to 5GHz band, we have no issues (only slightly lower signal strength) in accessing the Internet, in fact, it's more stable than 2.4GHz which has some interference sometimes. The only issue we have is our home network as described above. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1404480 | 2015-07-12 04:02:00 | Try turning of then turning on the router, it may have got its knickers in a twist over something, restarting could solve it. Failing that, open a command prompt on any of the other PC's, get its IP address via ipconfig, then on the laptop, open a command prompt and type ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ( with x being what ever the ip address is on the other PC.) If the two are talking you'll get a reply, if not then it will time say it cant be found. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1404481 | 2015-07-13 00:33:00 | Yeah that is pretty odd. As Wainui said start with ping tests and go from there. The router shouldn't care whether you're connected vie 2.4 or 5GHz, or anything else for that matter. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1404482 | 2015-07-13 02:11:00 | wainuitech, just tried all your suggestions, no, it doesn't work. Maybe, we should accept the reality, that's the way it is for this router! We will just change to 2.4GHz band whenever network sharing is required -- just a click away, anyway. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1404483 | 2015-07-13 05:04:00 | That shouldn't happen at all. What is the brand/model of the router? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1404484 | 2015-07-13 06:31:00 | Quite an old router, Linksys EA3500. It has been working great from day one - very good signal strength and stable. Of course, other than the above mentioned network issue. We can bear with it, however. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1404485 | 2015-07-31 10:46:00 | In the settings for the 5GHz is there a checkbox for "client isolation" or "guest account" or similar? This allows for internet access but blocks communication between connected devices. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 1404486 | 2015-07-31 11:04:00 | I know with some tplink adapters if youre using them, that if you use the windows drivers you wont even see a 5 ghz connection to connect to. This is because the drivers dont support it. I found this out. I had to install the tplink drivers to fix it. When I was using 8.1. But, now that I'm on Win10 its doing the same thing. I can only to connect to 2.4. Have to wait till TPlink bring out Win10 drivers (wont hold my breath tho) |
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