He might be able to change his band settings on his laptop in the wifi advanced settings tab you should see 5.8ghz option if it's supported.... unfortunately mine isn't
Anyone else notice optimum hotspots in residential areas in nj seem to have changed bands from 2.4g to 5.8 my house which always had a hot spot disappeared and I heard from others saw online the same... My Nexus phone seems to pick it up I guess it's 5.8 compatible...buying a dual adapter for my computer hope that works...
The 2.4 GHz band is a pretty crowded place, because it’s used by more than just Wi-Fi. Old cordless phones, garage door openers, baby monitors, and other devices tend to use the 2.4 GHz band. The longer waves used by the 2.4 GHz band are better suited to longer ranges and transmission through walls and solid objects.The 5 GHz band is much less congested, which means you will likely get more stable connections. You’ll also see higher speeds. On the other hand, the shorter waves used by the 5 GHz band makes it less able to penetrate walls and solid objects. It’s also got a shorter effective range than the 2.4 GHz band.
5ghz doesn't propagate as far as the lower frequencies, so even if it supports it, it may not reach him now.
Tysm! I couldn't for the life of me figure this out, why I suddenly lost the 2.4.. and my phone doesn't connect to the 5g. Besides for the fact that being as much weaker signal my extender can barely pick it up.Why did they do this?
Maybe your extender only picks up 2.4 and there's a closer 5.8....
I purchased this netgear extender I know this tp link will work as well. The one issue which I'm having with the netgear is sometimes when trying to connect to it I'll get a failed to obtain ip adress which the tp link reportedly doesn't have an issue with. I'd assume that other models should work as well being I'd assume the firmware etc are similar however I tried a cheaper tp link that didn't workI added it's mac adress to optimum although I'm pretty sure it's not necessary. I set up the extender to connect to the strongest optimum network. I connected my devices to the extender and the optimum sign in page came up in my browser. Important note for some reason the mac adress of your device is recognized differently then when connecting this way vs straight to the optimum network. If you do auto sign in you'll need to do it twice and will be reconized as different devices.
How do I set up the extender to connect to optimum?
I tried setting it up and after setup it said "limited", basically meaning it didn't really connect to optimum. Does it matter that my laptop runs on 2.4 and optimum now on 5.8?
How can Make my optimum wifi (unsecured network) to a secure network ?Having problems connecting my google Home with optimum wifi
Make your computer a hotspot and run it off that..
Can't imagine that's the problem you can create a 2.4 hotspot out of a 5.8... which your extender seems to be doing
Yeh I think the problem is just that the optimum wifi is too far away because of this new 5.8... is there any way to bring it closer?