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

[Swapnil “Swap” Bhartiya]

They should support 2.4Ghz too. 5Ghz won’t be detected by older chips. I am sure you are NOT confusing 5G network with 5Ghz wifi…

Also if you can, check which network your wifi chip detects :  If it says that the adapter supports 802.11a and 802.11g and 802.11n network modes, it means that the computer has 2.4 GHz and 5GHz network capability.   If it says 802.11n 802.11g and 802.11b network modes, it means the computer has 2.4GHz network capability only.

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/computer-not-see-5ghz-wifi-sees-2-4ghz-windows/ <https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/computer-not-see-5ghz-wifi-sees-2-4ghz-windows/>

Swap

> On May 29, 2019, at 7:44 PM, Todd R. Weiss <toddrweiss at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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. 
> > 
> > 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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