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

[Todd R. Weiss]

That's  ridiculous.
If it isn't backward compatible then that is ridiculous system
configuration.
There will be plenty of non 5G equipment around for a long time.
I don't buy that excuse.

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On Wed, May 29, 2019, 7:33 PM Swapnil “Swap” Bhartiya <arnieswap at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > His explanation was that they had probably set it up for 5G and my
> notebook didn't support that.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Is there another explanation? Is this issue likely to come again anytime
> soon?
> >
> >
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