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Originally Posted by Traum
Chances are, your "5 GHz" router would still support the 2.4GHz channels. You just have to make sure that in the router config, it is broadcasting in both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz (you'll most likely be setting up 2 WiFi networks with different SSID's), and you are good to go.
Also, assuming that your network setup is still using wireless N networking (as your Intel network card seems to suggest), I don't think there is any speed difference between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. It's just that there is far fewer interference at the 5 GHz band (most notably, your microwave oven doesn't use 5 GHz).
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Oh ya. Sorry. Guess I could have clarified. I do have 2.4ghz working off my router. But that frequency is soooooo bogged in my complex and every channel is tons of stuff/people on it. But 5ghz barely has anything on it as people around here don't have routers that use 5ghz.
So I want to get a wifi card to that's supports both 2.4ghz and 5ghz. So I can run on the least bogged frequency on my laptop. It is a super easy swap. I just wanna know which card would be the best for my laptop.
I have 2 networks set up currently. 5g and regular. My iPhone 6 is on 5g and it is blazing fast, where as my laptop is on the regular 2.4ghz band and is slow as fuck.