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Making WiFi fast

Making WiFi fast

Posted Nov 9, 2016 17:55 UTC (Wed) by spaetz (guest, #32870)
In reply to: Making WiFi fast by Sesse
Parent article: Making WiFi fast

> There's hardly any reason to use 2.4 GHz anymore, and 802.11ac doesn't even support it.

Except that the HP laptop I just bought only supports 2.4GHz. Looking for 802.11n and Linux compatability, I failed to notice that a 500€ machine does not do 5GHz nowadays. It is a shame, really.

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Making WiFi fast

Posted Nov 10, 2016 17:23 UTC (Thu) by kamil (guest, #3802) [Link]

Check if the WiFi in your laptop is upgradable. It's often on a separate mini-PCIe card that is trivial to replace with little more than a screwdriver, and the cards can often be found for under $/€20 on eBay and such.

Making WiFi fast

Posted Nov 11, 2016 0:08 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> Looking for 802.11n and Linux compatability, I failed to notice that a 500€ machine does not do 5GHz nowadays.

There's a solution for that now: look for 802.11ac. Since 802.11ac is 5 GHz only, its presence means that the WiFi adapter can do 5 GHz.

Once 802.11ac becomes more popular, it should reduce the annoying tendency of offering professional-grade laptops with only 2.4 GHz WiFi.


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