Everything 5G Is Trash

You should be able to turn off the 5GHz AP in your WiFi router's admin settings, and just have the AP as 2.4GHz only.

I can do it with my Huawei phone with Harmony OS, turn off the 5GHz AP in the hotspot options. But I'm sure most routers have similar options, to have 2.4GHz only.


Thing with 5GHz WiFi, depending on the construction of the premises, it can be rather line-of-sight. 5GHz microwaves just bounces off structures like foil lined plasterboard, and steel reinforced concrete. Even traditional brick or stone walls can be quite opaque to 5GHz.

Of course I can't really comment about that, as I'm not in the US.

But my 5G coverage is great with China Unicom and Nihao Mobile(which is an MVNO on Unicom).

 

My 5ghz on my netgear Nighthawk is pretty good. I can even walk out to my porch and use it with no issues.

Have you tried just rebooting the router?

Also 5G is still spotty in a lot of places...... Even here in LA it can be hit or miss. What I have noticed is that when I do not get 5G, the 4G LTE kicks in, but it seems soooooooo much slower than when I only had 4G in the past. But when I do get 5G, it's blazing fast and it seems faster than it was on WiFi.

 

Yep, I agree with you, 5G is Trash.

 

Check out my Speedtest result! How fast is your internet? https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/8195283329

 

Is it the same thing? I thought not. IDK.

I could choose 2.4 or 5 ghz on many devices or in hotels long before 5G towers.

A major concern with 5G is aviation safety, regarding avionics and terminal Air Traffic Control, though I never sat down to look into it properly.

OT : @jhtalisman I finally reached over 300mbps this week on my 5G phone that has only two 5G bands (n77, 78) but my recent switch of carrier in the UK yields enormously better speeds across the board on 4G than others I had been stuck with in the past. (I'm still not sure what the maximum 4G speeds are, or what bands my Carrier EE uses but my phone is generally fast)

 

Compared to 5g my 4g lte is a snail.

I use both bands on my router at-home as certain devices cannot use 5ghz. But everything in my house is 50-60ft away from my router other than maybe 1 security camera.

 

But you should be able to disable the 5GHz on your WiFi router though, via the router's admin settings, which you should be able to do with just a phone or tablet. Usually you connect the browser to a certain IP address in the router, and that shows the admin pages and configuration. It might be something like 192.168.1.1, or 192.168.1.100, etc. depending on the particular router, like Linksys, TP-Link etc.

I don't use Windows, as that can be a frustrating experience.

 

It should be in the documentation that came with your router, the same admin that sets the SSID and PSK password.

Does your WiFi come from a router you don't have admin access to, e.g. WiFi is provided by a landlord, or the router is rented from an ISP, or you're in a hotel. etc.?

I still use a Commodore 64. Well a modern version C64 Mini, I bought from TaoBao.

As I've already posted, you don't need a computer to configure a router admin via WiFi. It can be done by pretty much any smart-phone or tablet, as long as it has a browser.