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Originally Posted by Mtt48
This may not apply at all, but my new laptop cant receive 5ghz band wireless, it can only connect to the lower band. I can still see my 5ghz signal, but it cant connect.
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This happens when you have a laptop card that is 802.11a compatible, in an environment with 802.11n operating in mixed mode at 5Ghz. In mixed mode, 802.11n embeds data inside an 802.11a transmission, which your laptop can see, but doesn't know what to do with.
If you switched your 802.11n router to operate in n-only mode, I bet the laptop wouldn't see the 5Ghz signal anymore (and you'd break co-existence with any surrounding 802.11a AP's, but nobody uses 802.11a at home so it doesn't matter)