Can see a RB711UA-5HnD connect with my 2.4 GHZ only PC?!

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I’m putting together a small WISP and using MikroTik this time. I’m new to MikroTik, but learning as quickly as I can.

I’m in configuration mode - here’s what I have now:

A RB751G-2HnD with its WAN (port 1) connected to my DSL modem

A RB711UA-5HnD connected to port 2 of the RB751G-2HnD

The RB751G-2HnD has an SSID of the default ‘MikroTik’.

The RB711UA-5HnD has an SSID of ‘RC’.

I have an old Lenovo laptop running up to date XP. I cannot imagine having 5 Ghz WiFi in it, it’s several years old.

When I open Window’s wireless configuration I see both the MikroTik and RC SSIDs. If I turn off the RB711UA-5HnD I no longer see the RC SSID.

I don’t understand this. I’m associated with RC right now and I’m hitting the Internet. Either the RB711UA-5HnD has a 2.4 GHZ radio in addition to the 5Ghz (which is working with an SXT HPnD right now), someone recently put a dual band card in my laptop while I was sleeping, or somehow the RB751G-2HnD is piping the RB711UA-5HnD SSID to 2.4 Ghz.

I don’t understand why this is happening at all! :slight_smile: Any ideas?

Thanks!

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In some ways is seems as if were more retail laptops shipping with 5 GHz a few years ago than there are now. Don’t guess. Look at the device info for for your wireless card and see what it supports!

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The laptop does not support 5 Ghz. It looks as if something in the AP’s default AP router configuration is somehow bridging the WLAN side to make this happen.

I wouldn’t think that could happen, but a friend who knows way more about this than I do has done a bit of reconfiguration and the 5 Ghz AP no longer shows up on the laptop’s list of WiFi APs.

I don’t yet understand how this would happen…