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jumpingship

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I have a Netgear r6300 ac router and an edimax 1200ac wireless card, but my radio type still says 802.11n. How can I tell if Im connected via ac?
 
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I looked that router up and it appears it is designed for those who want to know nothing about how things work. Most routers in the advanced settings let you set things the channel width or guard bands etc etc. This one makes up their own rules and sets some silly max speed. It is actually important sometime to disable things like 802.11b or 802.11g compatibility support to prevent the router from allowing a single device to slow everything down. This router does not appear to have the ability to turn off support for 802.11b or 802.11g even


You will I guess have to see if it tells you the connect speeds and see if it is one of the 802.11ac speeds. The maximum you will be able to get it to connect at is 867 because of your nic...
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bill001g

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It generally will tell you when you have a AC connection. Sometimes it will tell you the modulation type on the signal. The new one for 802.11ac is 256qam

What tends to happen if you have the same SSID on the 2.4 and 5 it will almost always connect via 2.4 because the signal is stronger. 802.11ac does not run on 2.4g

If you are on 5g you may have a issue with quality of signal. The devices will many times fall back if they cannot negotiate a higher speed connection. One of the key things to making 802.11ac really work is selection of the channels. Pretty much you will need to use the bottom 4 or the top 4. All the ones in the middle you are at risk of the router detecting weather radar and disabling a channel. It will just slow down and not even tell you why.

Still it is your router that has primary control. You should be able to set the 5g band to support ONLY 802.11ac. This will force your nic to connect at AC or not connect at all.

 
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Thanks for the help! My 5g network has a different name so I'm definitely connected to it. My signal says excellent too, but it still says I'm connected via n. I've changed the channels and it doesn't make any difference. And my router doesnt have an exclusive 'ac' option but my usb wifi card does and even when i click ac only the connection still says n. Any suggestions?
 
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bill001g

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I looked that router up and it appears it is designed for those who want to know nothing about how things work. Most routers in the advanced settings let you set things the channel width or guard bands etc etc. This one makes up their own rules and sets some silly max speed. It is actually important sometime to disable things like 802.11b or 802.11g compatibility support to prevent the router from allowing a single device to slow everything down. This router does not appear to have the ability to turn off support for 802.11b or 802.11g even


You will I guess have to see if it tells you the connect speeds and see if it is one of the 802.11ac speeds. The maximum you will be able to get it to connect at is 867 because of your nic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ac

You want to check the for any number matches under the 80 or 160. These rates only work at 802.11ac. The 40mhz ones are 802.11n. Note no 802.11ac equipment can run 160mhz but the numbers for running 2x2 mimo are exactly the same so it is easier to read.

It is really unfortunate that manufactures are starting to dumb down equipment to appease those who get confused by lots of options.
 
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Another way to tell is by checking your internet speeds for instance I have 100MB/s which is N's 5ghz max but if I check it will say max speed 350mbs or something much higher which is a sign it is working properly but if you don't have speeds over 100MB/s you will only use N but as companies come out with faster internet speeds it will only become more future proof from there :D
 
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I have a 802.11 AC router from asus. There is not option to configure the 5ghz band to set network mode to 'only AC'. The available option is 'n + ac', 'legacy'. Now If i connect to this ESSID, how can i know that the connection is based on 802.11n or 802.11 AC ?

My wifi dongle/card does support 802.11 AC.

Also, if it connects to N, then how can i force the connection to be on AC only?

Any utility available in ubuntu or any linux?
 
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You should check your security setting to make sure it is AES or AC won't be available.


 
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I have the same edimax , the setting on configuration of the edimax are confusing to say the least . what to you have it set on , N , AC OR A , N, AC on A , N , AC it does not show any 2.4 N networks only the 5 ghz networks . Their fw sucks .
 
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