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

[David Needle]

I feel like I've entered IPG's version of Crossfire! 😉

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."

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:46 PM Todd R. Weiss <toddrweiss at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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