iPhone 5S: 802.11n / 5GHz

[FelixDerKater]

Has anyone else noticed their iPhone 5S to have trouble finding and connecting to 5GHz 802.11n wireless networks?

 

[verwon]

It doesn't support 5 GHz.

http://mashable.com/2013/09/10/apple-5g-wi-fi-iphone-5s-5c/

 

[fanchee]

It doesn't support 5 GHz.

http://mashable.com/2013/09/10/apple-5g-wi-fi-iphone-5s-5c/

Yes, it does. I haven't had any issues joining my 5ghz network at home.

 

[FelixDerKater]

It doesn't support 5 GHz.

It does, indeed. So did the iPhone 5.

This model just seems to have more trouble searching out in that spectrum. Side-by-side the 5 discovers and connects almost immediately after cycling WiFi off and on again, which the 5S sometimes requires several cycles. Maybe it is time to take the phone in for a replacement.

 

[PNutts]

It doesn't support 5 GHz.

http://mashable.com/2013/09/10/apple-5g-wi-fi-iphone-5s-5c/

What a terrible article. It's not clear and also wrong. The iPhone 5 / 5s / 5c supports 802.11n standard in both the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands.

I just enabled my 5 GHz home network and joined with no issues.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/

 

[SanjeevRana]

I have isolated the 2 & 5 Ghz band on the router with different APs ... and then I just select the 5Ghz manually if I want ...

Also helps keep different DNS settings on iphone for the same outbound ISP if I want

 

[Samanosuke]

Yes, it does. I haven't had any issues joining my 5ghz network at home.

Same no issues signing into my 5ghz network.

 

[wxman2003]

I have no issues either. I connect exclusively to 5 Ghz.

 

[scaredpoet]

Same here, running exclusively on 5GHz n at home, and the iPhone 5 and 5s connect fine to it. Neither have issues searching for the 5GHz networks, either.

 

[Menel]

It doesn't support 5 GHz.

http://mashable.com/2013/09/10/apple-5g-wi-fi-iphone-5s-5c/

"And while the backwards-compatible 802.11ac standard, referred by some as 5G Wi-Fi"

It doesn't support AC on 5ghz.
It supports N on 5ghz.

Never heard the 5G moniker. I guess if you consider B, A, G, N the first 4 generations, it sort of makes since. Mashable writers are apparently odd.

 

[Mercenary]

Don't forget that the 5ghz band has weaker wall penetration than 2.4ghz. In can use 5hz in the house but to reach the garden I have to hook onto the 2.4ghz.

 

[JRoDDz]

I have a 5, and wife has 5S. we can be in same room, I'll connect to 5ghz and she will connect to 2.4ghz. Happens consistently, and I have Airport Extreme 5th gen.

 

[scaredpoet]

Don't forget that the 5ghz band has weaker wall penetration than 2.4ghz. In can use 5hz in the house but to reach the garden I have to hook onto the 2.4ghz.

It's useful though, in neighborhoods where everyone has a router and is blasting away at 2.4GHz in 40Mhz-bandwidth mode, pretty much choking up the spectrum and interfering with each other. Where I live, there's easily a dozen wireless access points visible in the 2.4Ghz band, all named "linksys" or "netgear" and overlapping each other leaving not a single clear channel. Meanwhile, my routers are the only ones on a very spacious, empty 5Ghz. I also seem to be the only one not complaining that Wifi is too slow.

 

[verwon]

Sorry!

 

[Mrbobb]

It doesn't support 5 GHz.

http://mashable.com/2013/09/10/apple-5g-wi-fi-iphone-5s-5c/

At the risk of beating a dead horse: Don't believe everything you read on the Web.

 

[shenan1982]

It doesn't support 5 GHz.

http://mashable.com/2013/09/10/apple-5g-wi-fi-iphone-5s-5c/

Yes, nothing like quoting an article from Mashable before the iPhone 5s or 5c had even been released, LOL

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At the risk of beating a dead horse: Don't believe everything you read on the Web.

Especially when the "opinion" article was written before the product was even released, haha