Do you use a seperate 5GHZ channel for Airport Extreme?

[eclipse01]

or keep it as default?

just kind of curious on opinions.

 

[dyt1983]

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[eclipse01]

I use a separate 5GHz channel on my APTC, but I do leave the SSID to be the same as the 2.4GHz SSID.

How do you know it is using the 5ghz signal?

 

[dyt1983]

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[eclipse01]

I don't know that it is using the 5GHz signal (well for every device on the network). But if I wanted to know, on a Mac I would hold down the option key while clicking on the WiFi symbol in the menubar and it would tell me at what channel and frequency the Mac is connected.

yeah, I knew there was a way on mac...too bad there is no way that i know of on PC to do this.

 

[dyt1983]

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[eclipse01]

Maybe I can fix that for you.

netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid

The channel setting listed under the SSID should give you a clue as to which band that particular SSID uses.

thanks but it says there are no wireless interfaces on my system :-/

 

[Donfor39]

I use WiFi explorer

excellent wee app -ensures may macbook is using 5gz/iphone is using 2.4 bands

 

[wongster]

there is an option on the extreme to turn on the 5ghz. there you can assign a name to it or use your 2.4ghz name but it will add a 5ghz at the end of that. i connect which ever device i have that is capable to the 5ghz channel and those who only uses wireless n, that goes to the 2.4ghz

 

[steve62388]

I use two different network names to solve the precise problem that has been mentioned above, so I can quickly and easily determine whether I'm connected to 5Ghz or 2.4Ghz.