Hey guys, how's going?

It's early in the morning right now and I have a lab session this morning around 9 o'clock so I tried not to fall asleep as I most likely will miss that lab if I sleep right now. Lol.

Anyway, while I surf the Internet trying to kill some time, I read a good site which I found interesting and worth sharing. I think lots a people might have an interest in this discussion topic as this is related to wifi connection on for laptops.

Have anyone wondered why your some of your laptop not able to detect or received 5GHz wifi networks, eventhough you do have routers that support 5GHz frequency wifi signal? I have the problem as this and even wondered sometime, but never done proper research before until just now so here's the reason why and how to check whether your laptop support 5GHz wifi network.

First this to do is, you guys need to use command prompt for windows (you can automatically find this by typing 'cmd' in 'search' section on your Charm bar) and type this line of code in the 'cmd' screen:

netsh wlan show driver

This will show your wlan network driver specs. You need to look for 'Radio type supported' section on the specs for example as shown below:

 

Stated that if your network driver support not just 'bgn' but also 'a' or 'ac' means that it does support 5GHz frequency networks. For instance, in the example 'cmd' screen above, the driver does support 802.11a which means it does support 5GHz frequency networks.

Note: My explanation above is for windows 8/8.1 so for anyone who use Windows7/Vista/XP, please do check this link as I use some details from this link for my 'research' this morning (yawn).

Title: 

Checking if your Windows computer has the 5 GHz network band capability

Link:

http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/GetArticle.aspx?docid=5d3d2c64da344e53b0b6fde444bf86e1_Checking_if_your_computer_can_detect_5GHz_network.xml

Hope help you guys. Well, at least it help solve my problem.

Till then, See ya!