Network and WiFi card are both dual band; PC is only connecting to the 2.4 GHz
Just hoping to get help/guidance on how to force the 5GHz band on my WiFi adapter.
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I was able to figure out how to make the wifi connection prefer 5GHz, but that would just lead to it not connecting and a new version of the same connection being found. Also, in general, my connection has been very slow. I was getting around 30 MB/s on Windows, and now I'm lucky to even be getting 1 MB/s.
Hi there! Thank you for the response; however, I did already try that. It unfortunately did not work.
Someone solved a similar issue by setting regulatory domain iirc
I saw something similar when my 5ghz access point was on a channel that was not allowed in my region. If you can you can try setting your access point to a allowed channel.
I tried doing this and it didn't really do anything; however, it's possible I did it incorrectly? I'll go ahead and try again today
If you mean in my router settings; I cannot unfortunately. I have Spectrum, and their router settings are very limited. I have tried doing this in the connection editor with a few different channels and haven't seen any luck. Perhaps I'll go in and just try to run every channel I can 🤷
Pity you can't change it on the router.
Bazzite sets wifi regulatory domain according to your timezone so it could be worth it to double check that the timezone is correct.
You can check what regulatory domain it picked with
global
country US: DFS-FCC
there was more after this, not sure if it's relevant or not
That looks correct if you are in the USA. I'm afraid I'm out of ideas to try at this point.
Yeah, I don't know if the country code is different per time zone?
I'm getting a wifi pod soon, so maybe being closer to the ap will help, but we'll see
Now it won't help you with the 5ghz vs 2.4ghz. I keep them separate as it's a coinflip which mine decides to use. But I used
ujust toggle-iwd which can help with connection speed on some picky wifi cards. It's an alternative wifi backend that's newer I believe but kinda in that perpetual "beta" mindset?
MAYBE it'll help with the 2.4 vs 5 too no idea on that front.
Just be sure to reboot after toggling it. Can always toggle it back off later if no change
Forearning: KDE Network manager won't see it's security status right so it may show your connection as insecure, but it is indeed using the security. Such as WPA3...or is it wpk3...? I had that on mine and it used it KDE just couldn't see that particular bit of infoWell, I just got a pod from Spectrum, so now I have a mesh system. I have the new ap right next to my PC, and now it can actually recognize the 5GHz. It's still strange to me, because it was fine with 5GHz on Windows from the same distance. Even though my speed is now like 25 MB/s, I was still averaging between 30-40 MB/s. Might change once I get an ethernet cord long enough to reach my PC 🤷
Makes sense. I can try it, but is it better overall? When I was reading some of the Bazzite docs, it recommended against it, but I think it was mainly because of it being in the "beta mindset".
I honestly don't recall it recommending against it per se. In fact I think it's default on the deck images since it plays better with sunshine.
But I've found on some cards it just...works a lot better.
It's actually been around quite awhile. Worst you have to do is toggle it back off.
Yeah, I think it's definitely running at least a bit better
Mine tends to have slowdowns and various small issues like discord voice disconnects on the older WPA_Supplicant. Sure I think I have a bit of a lack of pure 6ghz support but 5.3 is more than fast enough, and stability with that speed is what I needed myself.
Also does it with powersave.
That's why I usually recommend the iwd test first before power save disabling. It seems to make some modern PCI or mobo wifi behave nicer