New Asus PCE-AC68 uses Wireless-N instead of AC?

[FlyingSentry]

I just noticed through the task manager that my Wi-Fi card is only using the Wireless-N option instead of AC. My laptop is able to connect to the same router with 5 GHz AC. Where should I even begin to troubleshoot? Both systems are using Windows 10. Also the drivers are a bit old. 2014 old. I do not see a driver for 2015...

[Guest]

You have got a 5Ghz network actually running yes? Some AP's and most routers have the networks separate.

[Mustavi]

I just noticed through the task manager that my Wi-Fi card is only using the Wireless-N option instead of AC. My laptop is able to connect to the same router with 5 GHz AC. Where should I even begin to troubleshoot? Both systems are using Windows 10. Also the drivers are a bit old. 2014 old. I do not see a driver for 2015...

I was having this problem earlier. I just changed the 5GHz band to channel to 44 and the channel bandwidth to 80MHz on my router. Now I'm getting around 877.5MBps with my card. But I think the channel support on the card depends on what country it's being used in. So I would recommend you to check out this article and find the right settings for your card.

 

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

 

Then check your Wi-Fi status on Network and Sharing center if you're actually getting wireless AC speeds.

[FlyingSentry]

I was having this problem earlier. I just changed the 5GHz band to channel to 44 and the channel bandwidth to 80MHz on my router. Now I'm getting around 877.5MBps with my card. But I think the channel support on the card depends on what country it's being used in. So I would recommend you to check out this article and find the right settings for your card.

 

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

 

Then check your Wi-Fi status on Network and Sharing center if you're actually getting wireless AC speeds.

Ok so I first tried to change the 5 GHz network to channel 44, that didn't seem to change. Then I changed the router's 5 GHz mode to only AC. It worked because an older laptop could not connect to the 5GHz band with AC, only mixed. So maybe Windows 10 is glitched into thinking that I am using N instead of AC? Maybe a bad driver install. I used to have an older ASUS PCI card that could only do 2.4 GHz and then I upgraded. I do not recall removing the driver, maybe that is the cause?

[FlyingSentry]

You have got a 5Ghz network actually running yes? Some AP's and most routers have the networks separate.

And yes the 5 GHz network is running in a mixed mode. I did not see a separate network setting for AC.

[DarthSlater77]

If you have another device on the network using 802.11g/n the antenna can't run at AC at the same time. The rule of thumb with wireless is that it will run at the newest protocol that supports ALL the devices on the network. Try having ONLY your laptop on the network and it may work but at that point nothing else has a connection so you are better off just running a cable.  

[paco1234]

I know the problem is 3 years old, but I experiment the same issue yesterday and I want to share my experience for other people who may have the same problem.

 

The PCE AC68 card seems to connect to my 5G network. Windows network explorer says that the connection was made with 802.11n, but the router says that it is ac. See attached files.