Curmudgeon10
Occasional Visitor
I have a dual band ASUS AC68R Wireless router that works well in my home, with 11 wireless devices on three floors. Can't complain.
I am looking for a capability to run on my PC that would simply show me this network, by frequency band, all the applicable data for each link, etc. I thought Inssider would do this, and although it had worked well when everything was on 2.4GHz, it wouldn't show my 5GHz links. I guess I didn't understand how Inssider worked, because I thought it would capture data from the router, which is connected to the PC via ethernet. However, reading a post on another forum, someone said the PC needed both the 2.4 and 5GHZ wireless capability for Inssider to work, so I acquired a Trendnet 684UB Dual Band USB adapter, and installed it on the PC.
Still no chart of the 5GHz signal on Inssider. The utility for the adapter has a "survey" feature which shows all the local networks, identical to those shown on Inssider. But just as Inssider, no 5GHZ network (I have given that one a separate SSID). Quite a bit of internet chatter is around on the limits of the Trendnet 684UB, about how one cannot have both radios on simultaneously, and I have attempted (what a poor and difficult to interpret beast it's configuration utility is...) to put the adapter in 5GHz mode only, but in this case, the survey just shows a blank --- no networks detected at all in that range.
I know the router is broadcasting on 5GHz because my iPad and one of my Apple TVs is connected to the router on that 5GHz network.
So it may be beyond my capabilities to get this Trendnet thing working.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make that wireless adapter work so that it will sense and display 5GHz data, or lacking that, how I might better achieve my goal: something I can run on the PC that shows what devices are on the network, on what frequency, with the other technical data one normally finds with network management tools.
I am looking for a capability to run on my PC that would simply show me this network, by frequency band, all the applicable data for each link, etc. I thought Inssider would do this, and although it had worked well when everything was on 2.4GHz, it wouldn't show my 5GHz links. I guess I didn't understand how Inssider worked, because I thought it would capture data from the router, which is connected to the PC via ethernet. However, reading a post on another forum, someone said the PC needed both the 2.4 and 5GHZ wireless capability for Inssider to work, so I acquired a Trendnet 684UB Dual Band USB adapter, and installed it on the PC.
Still no chart of the 5GHz signal on Inssider. The utility for the adapter has a "survey" feature which shows all the local networks, identical to those shown on Inssider. But just as Inssider, no 5GHZ network (I have given that one a separate SSID). Quite a bit of internet chatter is around on the limits of the Trendnet 684UB, about how one cannot have both radios on simultaneously, and I have attempted (what a poor and difficult to interpret beast it's configuration utility is...) to put the adapter in 5GHz mode only, but in this case, the survey just shows a blank --- no networks detected at all in that range.
I know the router is broadcasting on 5GHz because my iPad and one of my Apple TVs is connected to the router on that 5GHz network.
So it may be beyond my capabilities to get this Trendnet thing working.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make that wireless adapter work so that it will sense and display 5GHz data, or lacking that, how I might better achieve my goal: something I can run on the PC that shows what devices are on the network, on what frequency, with the other technical data one normally finds with network management tools.
