<div dir="ltr">I feel like I've entered IPG's version of Crossfire! 😉<div><br></div><div>But I kind of see the logic of both Swap and Todd's answers. Swap is no doubt technically correct, but are companies really already 5G in a non-backward compatible way? As Todd says, "That's ridiculous." </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:46 PM Todd R. Weiss <<a href="mailto:toddrweiss@gmail.com">toddrweiss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That's ridiculous. <div dir="auto">If it isn't backward compatible then that is ridiculous system configuration. </div><div dir="auto">There will be plenty of non 5G equipment around for a long time.</div><div dir="auto">I don't buy that excuse. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">:)</div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">Todd R. Weiss<br>Technology Journalist<br>TechManTalking<br><a href="mailto:toddrweiss@gmail.com" target="_blank">toddrweiss@gmail.com</a><br>O 717-806-5932<br>M 717-413-9630<br><br>Publicist<br>Harmonious Wail<br>Gypsy Jazz with Style<br><a href="http://www.wail.com" target="_blank">www.wail.com</a><br>717-413-9630<br><a href="mailto:toddrweiss@gmail.com" target="_blank">toddrweiss@gmail.com</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 29, 2019, 7:33 PM Swapnil “Swap” Bhartiya <<a href="mailto:arnieswap@gmail.com" target="_blank">arnieswap@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Yes. If your wifi chip doesn’t support 5Ghz, it won’t work. We have some older lappies and they can only detect 2.4GHz.<br>
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> On May 29, 2019, at 7:30 PM, David Needle <<a href="mailto:davidneedle@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">davidneedle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I ask this because of an incident in the press room at Salesforce's TrailheaDX conference today. They had a special WiFi password for the room, but it didn't work for me. A tech came over, but couldn't get it to work, even after also trying several other "secret" WiFi logins. <br>
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> His explanation was that they had probably set it up for 5G and my notebook didn't support that. <br>
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> No idea if that's a plausible explanation. No one else seemed to have a problem connecting. As it turned out, there was another WiFi code available to all attendees that worked perfectly fine throughout the Moscone Center so it turned out not to be an issue. <br>
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> Is there another explanation? Is this issue likely to come again anytime soon? <br>
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