STOP USING 2.4 GHz WiFi ❗

To save u time 2.4ghz=better wifi range 5ghz=faster wifi speed

5 Giga Hurts, sounds painful...

Using 2.4Ghz means I get DoS'd by my microwave.

The walls in my house kills the 5 GHz

I'm watching this on 2.4 GHz hehe

screw 5 GHz! Cable is better anyway!

My whole neighborhood are jostling each other on 2.4 Ghz, but on 5 Ghz I'm all alone. My WiFi-connection is fast and stable like no one's business. This new 5 Ghz Router is my best purchase ever.

I was a networking consultant during the 802.11AC transition and worked to educate consumers on why they should switch and if it made sense to take on the extra cost of the new technology when buying a new router as well as training retail sales people on how to explain it in a way your average person could understand. And joe may I just say while you do have some good points there is also tons....I mean tons of misinformation. I’m not gonna list it all out here in a YouTube comment just know that this advice is good advice for many people but not all people. If you are still confused please go talk with an expert about your unique situation to find out what’s best for you.

I only use 2.4 GHz for my microwave

I haven't even heard of such a thing until i saw ur notification.. ^^" im living in a rock.. 💔😂 thanks!

Watched halfway through the video before realizing that my computer only has Ethernet 😓

nerds, i use 3.7 GHz, combining the speed of 5 GHz and the wall penetration of 2.4 GHz

Good stuff. Just a clarification which I believe you implied: Light waves--in the same medium--travel at exactly the same velocity ("c" in a vacuum). The 5GHz frequency must have a shorter wavelength than the 2.4GHz frequency because: c = (wavelength X frequency) (increasing one value reduces the other as c is a constant value in a given medium) More waves per second can carry more binary information. But the velocity in the same environment of these two light wavelengths are identical. Neither travels "faster" than the other. Regards, Eric.

Maybe in a house with cardboard walls or thin walls. If you have an old house like built 1650ish (using rocks, lumber, loam,...) with real walls (40 to 50 cm) you have no chance of getting a 5 Ghz signal to another room. 2.4 Ghz cisco accesspoints with multi antennas do the job quite well, they get through the walls with ease. I tried 5Ghz in mesh and non mesh configurations which kind of helps, but in total you require more accesspoints for the same area (tried different manufactures: Asus, Ubiquiti, AVM). Plus I don't care about interference of other networks (all neighbors are far away enough)... So in conclusion it depends on each specific usecase ;-)

Great video and good explanation. One question, should I be playing around with the channel width? Currently set to auto.

I only recently started using 5ghz, nice vid...thanks for the detailed info, very useful, now I’m wondering what’s the next protocol being tested, or being worked on? 6ghz. 10ghz? Any need yet?or in the future?

all i know is that my router lights up

My 5 GHz has so low range that I literally have to put my phone next to the router

Good video! I'm actually going to watch this again because it breaks down a lot of common issues people have with wifi. This helps me explain things to them a lot.

I have a question I live way out in the country far away from everyone else and I only have one neighbor with Wi-Fi I have a D-link AC 3200 ultra Wi-Fi router for about two years now and I have absolutely loved it, its a tri-band router so it has one 2.4GHz band and two 5 GHz band I was wondering if I should disable the 2.4 GHz band altogether and just have the router broadcast the two 5GHz band? On average I normally have about 22 devices connected to it between my family and my smart home devices