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I recently got a new wireless router (TP-Link TD-W8970) which is set to mixed b/g/n mode but I realised that my Windows 10 computer works only on b or g mode.

My wireless network adapter is an Intel Wifi Link 5100 AGN and as the name suggest it is n-mode compatible and has been working on n mode for quite a few years on a Netgear router (and Windows 7).

Other devices on the LAN will pick up the n mode just fine but not my computer.

From the adapter configuration I've Enabled N Mode: n mode enabled

But when I go to the "Wireless Mode" the n-mode value is missing from the list.

list of wireless modes available

My driver is provided by Microsoft (released in 2011 and supposedly up to date) and Intel themselves hasn't released a compatible driver for Windows 10 for now (or they might never will)

So basically I have an n-mode router and an n-mode adapter but I can only use g mode. Any suggestions?

P.S. Enabling n mode-only on my router would still be picked up as g-mode from my computer... I don't even know how that is possible.

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You may be connecting in N mode already.

On my laptop, Task Manager says the connection type is 802.11g, but when I go to

Network Connections -> Wi-Fi (r-click) -> Status

the speed is 162Mbps. So I suspect Task Manager is reporting the wrong value.

The only setting I changed in the adaptor properties was Channel width for band 2.4, which I changed from 20MHz to Auto:

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