Does anybody know whether the current generation of smart mobiles support 5Ghz wi-fi.

 

I've just switched my home system to 5 Ghz in order to avoid congestion on the over well used 2.4 Ghz band locally. Unfortunately my current mobile, a BB Curve 9300, doesn't appear to support 5 Ghz transmissions.

 

Nick

I have my Samsung SIII set to the 5Ghz frequency on my Virgin Media Superhub.

OK.

 

Weird.

 

The BB Playbook I have connects to 5 Ghz  signal coming from the BT 600 Wi-Fi station (Add-on to a HH3) no problem.

 

The Playbook and the Curve 9300 are both 5 years old, but the Curve doesn't detect any 5 Ghz signal, even when it does a scan using the WPS connection method.

 

Is your superhub set to auto channel selection or a specific 5 Ghz channel ?

 

 

Nick

 

 

It transmits on 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, I just go into my phones settings and choose which one I want to connect to.

I'm wondering whether the BT 600 Wi-Fi station is missing some of the potential radio frequency channels in the 5 Ghz band. The channel selection only allows you to chose between channel 36, 40, 44 0r 48. From recollection there are 12 channels that can be selected from the 2.4 Ghz band that the BT HH3 uses. Are there some interleaved 5 Ghz channels missing from the BT 600 unit ?

 

Even if there are some interleaved channels missing from the 5 Ghz spectrum used by the BT 600, I would have thought that a WPS connection method scan from the phone would have reported back accordingly. But it does nothing.

 

My conclusion is that the Curve 9300 doesn't support 5 Ghz, . . . unless someone out there knows different.

 

 

Postscript

 

Apparently, there are no interleaved channels for Europe, USA and Canada and they all use the same frequency range and individual values:-

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

 

Bang goes that theory

 

Nick

Edited 14 March, 201511 yr by Clunkclick

Nexus 6 works on 802.11ac.

My Nexus 4 supports the 5GHz frequency. It's not 4G.

So it shows both our home networks...

The Blue Pill and The Red Pill.

My BT home hub 5 is dual channel but broadcasts the same SSID and password for both 2.4 and 5ghz so I split them and renamed the 5ghz one as my S4 would connect as 2.4ghz without the direct choice. Not sure if yours would be similar in it's set up? 

My HTC M8 is 5Ghz and my router is the same, my phone will connect but the 5Ghz from my router is effected by my concrete walls. The 2.4Ghz is rock solid. The mad thing is that my 5Ghz video bridges are rock solid.

My SGS4 does both 2.4 & 5Ghz as does my Galaxy Note 10.1.

 

The lollypop upgrade to the SGS4 hasn't made any difference either.

my LG G3 works great on both bands

 

John

My SGS4 does both 2.4 & 5Ghz as does my Galaxy Note 10.1.

 

The lollypop upgrade to the SGS4 hasn't made any difference either.

sorry to go slightly off topic - you have the lollipop upgrade to the S4? Any good? I am waiting for EE to roll theirs out but they are always last.

5GHZ is becoming just as congested as 2.4GHZ where my mum lives. Most ISP's now provide dual band routers as standard, so congestion will increase even more. The only saving grace is that the 5GHZ band has a shorter range, so only local'ish routers should be picked up.

 

Apple iPhone 4S or newer support the 5GHZ band.

sorry to go slightly off topic - you have the lollipop upgrade to the S4? Any good? I am waiting for EE to roll theirs out but they are always last.

 

Just plug it into your computer and provided you have Kies 3, it should do the update, that's unless of course it's locked.

 

My handset is unlocked (sim free), so it will always accept an update via either OTA or Wi-Fi & internet.

 

The version is 5.0.1 isn't brilliant, it's a tiny bit buggy, but otherwise it's OK, it's quite slick. Irritations are you can't access Settings as you used to and other little things. 

 

I don't know how battery life is affected as yet.

I've just gone through this issue with home hub , the Internet kept dropping signal on the 2.4ghz so BT did a walk through for 5ghz and seems a little better , however the iPhone 3 I've got found it difficult so I've just used BT hotspot and is fine

My BT home hub 5 is dual channel but broadcasts the same SSID and password for both 2.4 and 5ghz so I split them and renamed the 5ghz one as my S4 would connect as 2.4ghz without the direct choice. Not sure if yours would be similar in it's set up? 

My Home hub 3 transmits on 2.4Ghz only and the add-on unit, the BT600 Wi-Fi, to which the HH3 is connected by a patch network cable transmits on 5 Ghz only. If you have both wireless services switched on they come-up with separate SSIDs - I switch the 2.4 Ghz service on HH3 off ,  using the Power Save function on the HH3, because 2.4 Ghz is so congested round here and  I don't what BT Fon running in the background and because the 2.4 Ghz service seems to interfere and slow down the 5 Ghz on the BT 600 unit when both are running.

 

We're a bit behind the curve up here, most people have still got 2.4 Ghz.

 

This arrangement is relatively trouble-free at, the moment, although, as said, the downside is that certain devices that don't support 5 Ghz, e.g. the Blackberry Curve 9300 and Roberts Stream 205 can't connect wirelessly - I've overcome  the problem with the latter by using a network cable connection from radio to BT 600.

 

The fact that I can't connect the BB Curve wirelessly to my home network is just a minor annoyance - if I need to download something from the phone to the network, then I just have to use  the USB cable and the BB desktop software.

 

Nick

Edited 19 March, 201511 yr by Clunkclick