Device: Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN Location: PCI bus 4, device 0, function 0 Advanced Properties: 802.11n Channel Width for band 2.4: 20Mhz Only 802.11n Channel Width for band 5.2: Auto 802.11n Mode: Enabled Ad Hoc Channel 802.11b/g: 1 Ad Hoc QoS Mode: WMM Disabled Fat Channel Intolerant: Disabled Mixed Mode Protection: CTS-to-self Enabled Preferred Band: 1.
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I recently got a new wireless router (TP-Link TD-W8970) which is set to mixed b/g/n mode but I realised that my Windows 10 computer works only on b or g mode.
My wireless network adapter is an Intel Wifi Link 5100 AGN and as the name suggest it is n-mode compatible and has been working on n mode for quite a few years on a Netgear router (and Windows 7).
Other devices on the LAN will pick up the n mode just fine but not my computer.
Intel Wifi Link 5100 Agn
From the adapter configuration I've Enabled N Mode:n mode enabled
But when I go to the 'Wireless Mode' the n-mode value is missing from the list.
My driver is provided by Microsoft (released in 2011 and supposedly up to date) and Intel themselves hasn't released a compatible driver for Windows 10 for now (or they might never will)
So basically I have an n-mode router and an n-mode adapter but I can only use g mode. Any suggestions?
P.S. Enabling n mode-only on my router would still be picked up as g-mode from my computer... I don't even know how that is possible.
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1 Answer
You may be connecting in N mode already.
On my laptop, Task Manager says the connection type is 802.11g, but when I go to
Network Connections -> Wi-Fi (r-click) -> Status
the speed is 162Mbps. So I suspect Task Manager is reporting the wrong value.
The only setting I changed in the adaptor properties was Channel width for band 2.4, which I changed from 20MHz to Auto:
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