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

[Tara Calishain]

If it were me, I'd get a USB port wireless adapter from Amazon. They're
less than $10. I had to do this some at my old job, where the WiFi on a
laptop would die and we'd get an adapter and try to baby it along for a
while...

Tara


On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 7:55 PM David Needle <davidneedle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, "only" supports 802.11n
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 4:51 PM Swapnil “Swap” Bhartiya <
> arnieswap at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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/
>>
>> Swap
>>
>> On May 29, 2019, at 7:44 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:
>>
>>> 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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