[Ipg-smz] My three year old Dell Inspiron 13 5000 laptop runs great - but is it too old?

[Swapnil “Swap” Bhartiya]

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.

> On May 29, 2019, at 7:30 PM, David Needle <davidneedle at gmail.com> wrote:
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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. 
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> His explanation was that they had probably set it up for 5G and my notebook didn't support that. 
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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. 
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> Is there another explanation? Is this issue likely to come again anytime soon? 
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