How to force Archer T6E 1300AC to prefer 5GHz over 2.4GHz?
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I recently got an Archer T6E 1300AC and I'm having trouble connecting to my 5GHz network. My router is providing 2.4GHz as well as 5Ghz access. When I disable 2.4GHz, the card connects to the 5GHz network just fine, I'm struggling however to force it to use 5GHz when both 2.4GHz and 5GHz are enable (I cannot permanently disabel 2.4GHz as there are other devices relying on it). I'm using Win 10 64-bit Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362.
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I was having this same problem recently after upgrading my Mobo/CPU and reinstalling windows 10.
I ended up installing the Broadcom 4360 drivers or 43xx for Windows 10 from a 3rd party site, driver-wireless.com. Once installed, look under the Advanced tab in the Device Manager properties for the card, there is an option for "Band Preference". I set that to 'Prefer 802.11a' instead of 'None' and it instantly connected to my 5 Ghz network. Thinking they meant 802.11ac... 'a' is very old standard.
I also have the channel in my router set to channel 40 instead of Auto.
(Bonus: I enabled Beamforming from the Advanced tab as well since I have a TP-Link router with beamforming support, not sure if it really does anything though)
Hope this helps someone, because I was pulling my hair out for 2 hours trying to figure this out.
Cheers,
Jeff
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As you know, the Archer T6E supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz both;
If you want to force T6E connect to the 5GHz only, there are 2 options.
1. You can change the wireless mode as 802.11ac only when you go to advanced page of the network adapter.
2. You can use different SSID for the 2.4GHz and 5GHz; just connect the computer to the 5GHz with the password only, and then it won't connect to the 2.4GHz without the password.
May it help and have a nice day.
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Hello, if the T6E cannot detect the 5GHz of the main router, first, you can try to change the wireless channel, like channel 36, 40 or 44.
Besides, there is a public driver released by the chipset manufacturer for Windows 10 64bit, you can give it a go. Download link as below:
http://support.tp-link.com/f/55bcecfe49/?dl=1
How to install it manually: https://www.tp-link.com/support/faq/920/
May it help and have a good day.
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Can this Archer T6E detect the 5GHz from the Deco? You can tryto disable 2.4GHz and disable fast roamming to give it a go.
The Archer T6E does not have this feature available to select preferred band; we need connect to the 5GHz manually to acheive it.
Considering you have the Deco M9 plus, the main network has the same wifi name, to ensure the adapter will connect to the 5GHz, you can enable guest network-5GHz as a workd around for now.
May it help and have a good day.
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I was having this same problem recently after upgrading my Mobo/CPU and reinstalling windows 10.
I ended up installing the Broadcom 4360 drivers or 43xx for Windows 10 from a 3rd party site, driver-wireless.com. Once installed, look under the Advanced tab in the Device Manager properties for the card, there is an option for "Band Preference". I set that to 'Prefer 802.11a' instead of 'None' and it instantly connected to my 5 Ghz network. Thinking they meant 802.11ac... 'a' is very old standard.
I also have the channel in my router set to channel 40 instead of Auto.
(Bonus: I enabled Beamforming from the Advanced tab as well since I have a TP-Link router with beamforming support, not sure if it really does anything though)
Hope this helps someone, because I was pulling my hair out for 2 hours trying to figure this out.
Cheers,
Jeff
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I was having issue reaching my 5GHz network. 2.4GHz was working fine. Got to the solution, so I decided to register and post my solution here, this way other people can try it and maybe get it fixed too!
I tried so many drivers and so many settings without success. In the end I found out that the Archer T6e on Windows 10 will only work on certain channels for 5GHz connections (at least on my experience).
First I tried setting the network channels to 153 and 149 on the router with no success.
Then I decided to go to the lower channels (36, 40, 44) on my router settings again. Switched it to channel 36 and my adapter finally began seeing my 5GHz connection and connecting to it without any problem.
It worked for me with the Broadcom 43xx driver which I downloaded from driver-wireless.com, but I believe it would also work with the other drivers, and that the problem is actually the channel compatibility. I didn't change the settings at all.
So, I'd recommend anyone having the same problem to try setting the router to broadcast the 5GHz network on the 36, 40 or 44 channels before trying installing other drivers.
It seems like the same solution as @Birdie21 and @Kevin_Z recommended, but I think that the driver won't make a difference.
If this helps you get to the solution, please give it a thumbs up!
Good Luck!
Bonus: I downloaded the "Wifi Analyzer" app on my phone (Android) so I could see a channel that wouldn't be already taken by a neighbor's network, despite knowing that 5GHz networks from my neighbors wouldn't probably go far enough to make any interference.
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@Cated It works perfectly many thanks.
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- Right click windows logo in lower right bar
- Choose "Device Manager"
- Expand Network adapters
- Right click the "TP-LINK 802.11ac" device and choose "Properties"
- Click the "Advanced" tap and in "Property:" find "Band Preference"
- Choose "Prefer 802.11a"
That did it for me without any need for special drivers or any other settings.
(I am using Google Nest, which is nice but is truly limited in the advanced settings department.)
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@djookz All of these are great replies. I found another solution that may help. If your wifi router has a combined 5ghz and 2ghz band in a single SSID name, I had some success forcing it to prefer the 5ghz band with faster speeds.
First try setting the "Prefer 802.11a"
Credit to @Frakke
- Right click windows logo in lower right bar
- Choose "Device Manager"
- Expand Network adapters
- Right click the "TP-LINK 802.11ac" device and choose "Properties"
- Click the "Advanced" tap and in "Property:" find "Band Preference"
- Choose "Prefer 802.11a"
That did it for me without any need for special drivers or any other settings.
(I am using Google Nest, which is nice but is truly limited in the advanced settings department.)
Then in that same menu:
- Select "2G Bandwidth Capability" setting (Near the top of the property tab)
- Choose the value to be "2.4G: 20MHz"
This gave me much faster speeds on my 5ghz band than before. I think this setting forces all 2.4ghz connections to be exclusive to the 20MHz band leaving 40MHz to be exclusive to 5ghz connections. Definitely worth a shot for much faster speeds
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@djookz ...Well that's odd to me, because i would like to know how to stop it continuously trying to connect to 5G, having really annoying constant disconnects i wanted to know if these problems persist on the 2.4 wave band, but it seems that's not possible even if i select auto connect on the 2,4 and disconnect the 5g
tried everything i can think of btw, still getting same issues with different reported errors...."can't find default gateway" being the main message, ... changed the router, tried reinstalling network drivers T6E drivers etc.....still the same issue no matter what, continuous short term disconnects i'd estimate maybe up to 50 times a day.....and get this, this all started after a major windows update 6-12 months ago (the one which removed adobe flash player from the windows os)
If anyone has any decent suggestions i have not tried, i'm all ears, getting desperate at the stage even tried changing the power settings reset the IP settings in cmd prompt, and everything else in betwen, , i should add i'm the only device on the local network encountering this problem all the other devices connected to the same router/hub, have no problems
thx for reading.
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