How to force Archer T6E 1300AC to prefer 5GHz over 2.4GHz?
How to force Archer T6E 1300AC to prefer 5GHz over 2.4GHz?
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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- 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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