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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 1:09 pm
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only bg

Originally Posted by stimpy
If your card is ABG and the access point is ABG, then the card will always choose A. So sure, you can turn off A on the access point or the card. It shouldn't be difficult.

However, there is a ton of free spectrum in 5GHz and you could also set your access point to avoid 5.8GHz for A.

so the AP is only BG, the laptop has a/b/g/, but I cannot find where to turn off the A side of the internal card.

Still, I don't know why the 5.8g would kill the G connection
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