Solved Looking for cheap 5 GHz wifi USB dongle

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Hi there,
My laptop has an 11ng capable wireless NIC but very often the network speed is slow as snail. The router in my home has 5G channel and my windows laptop using it has fast and stable network. Not sure if the speed being low on FreeBSD laptop is because of the driver or the signal channel, but I would try 5G on FreeBSD. Can anyone recommend a cheap USB dongle?
Thanks.
 
5G is a mobile telecom protocol. You are taking about 5GHz band of WiFi. Those are two entirely different things.

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5G - Wikipedia

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Sorry for not being clear, I know they are two different things but I figured people would get my question from the context. Wiki is not accessible to me, but yes, I’m talking about 5GHz frequency signal band from the wireless router. Another frequency from the router is 2.4GHz, which works for my FreeBSD laptop but not very stable.
 
hruodr said:
Does FreeBSD support 5Ghz Wifi?
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Not that I'm aware of. But I don't keep track of it (don't have wireless on FreeBSD anywhere).

The new iwlwifi(4) in 13.1 only seems to support 802.11a/b/g modes (so no 5 GHz there). It does hint at it being added in the future, including support for the new Wifi 6 GHz bands.

Code: 
     While iwlwifi supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax the compatibility code
     currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes.  Support for 802.11 n/ac is
     to come. 802.11ax and 6Ghz support are planned.
iwlwifi(4)
 
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