Am 16.07.2017 um 10:07 schrieb Dekks Herton: > Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> writes: >> On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, DI Florian Reitmeir wrote: >>> > Quoting from Wikipedia: "802.11n can use either the 2.4 GHz > or >>> the 5 > GHz band"; does that not mean what it seems to say? >>> >>> this is not wrong, but nearly all adapters support wireless to the >>> very old 801.11b for compatibility. so if an adapter support 5ghz, >>> he will in 99% also support 802.11a but if he supports 802.11n 5ghz >>> is not mandatory >> Ah, so it *might* support 5GHz... :-( Thanks. >>> you can also post which chipset your notebook uses, but most devices >>> only support 2,4ghz >> Oops, I forgot; "lsusb" plays its cards close to its chest, but I >> found this in "dmesg": Atheros AR9565 Rev:1. After some searching, I >> see that it doesn't do 5GHz... >> >> Will trade Acer Aspire E-15 for a Debian-compatible laptop if it does >> 802.11a :-) > Can you not swap the wifi card out for a better one? on most systems this is simple not possible to the fact, that for 5ghz you would need an extra antenna in the laptop case.
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