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[Mr Hagon]

As an early adopter of the original 802.11a standard, I can say, whilst the band is (currently) less congested, the 5Ghz band doesn't penetrate house walls so well.

Well in that case, I'll stick with 2.4GHz  .

[Kevin Wood]

As an early adopter of the original 802.11a standard, I can say, whilst the band is (currently) less congested, the 5Ghz band doesn't penetrate house walls so well.

Well in that case, I'll stick with 2.4GHz  .

It might have merits if the 2.4 GHz band in your locality is rammed full with other WLANs and wireless cameras, etc., though. Poor wireless performance is not always down to attenuation through walls, and often simply too many networks competing for bandwidth.

[Mr Hagon]

As an early adopter of the original 802.11a standard, I can say, whilst the band is (currently) less congested, the 5Ghz band doesn't penetrate house walls so well.

Well in that case, I'll stick with 2.4GHz  .

It might have merits if the 2.4 GHz band in your locality is rammed full with other WLANs and wireless cameras, etc., though. Poor wireless performance is not always down to attenuation through walls, and often simply too many networks competing for bandwidth.

Fair point, there are other networks that I can detect.  However on other devices I have, if I just move away from the wall where the main PC is I get full strenght coverage, so I'll take a guess that my issues are more likely to be the location of the aerial on the wireless card on the main PC than too many other networks.