RE8723BE no wireless/n

[jacquesvan]

HP Pavilion x360 - 11t-k100 CTO (ENERGY STAR) Model #: L8T22AAR with a Realtek RE8723BE wireless card. This card is supposed to be b/g/n.
When I look under advanced settings it only shows:
1 "Auto"
2 "IEEE 802 b"
3 "IEEE 802 b/g"
Initially it was a dissapointment that the card was not capable of 5G, now it does not do /n either as stated in the specs. Any solutions?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Auto would be the setting.

Also go to the Network and Internet section in the control panel, click on Network and Sharing Center, click on Connections: Wireless Network Connection, and it will report the connection speed of the adapter.

It should be 72 MBPS, which is the wireless N (1x1) spec for the Realtek card your notebook has, since the fastest G can connect at is 54 MBPS.

[jacquesvan]

Thanks for the rapid response Paul. I was wrong in my earlier statement. Under advanced I have 3 options: /b, /g or b/g.

There is NO /auto option.  Under network connections it does show 72 Mbps though.

I wonder why the /auto or/n option is not shown anywhere.

Running netsh wlan check from command prompt does show both card and driver to be /n capable as well.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

72 MBPS indicates that it is connecting at the wireless N rate.

I have also have wireless N cards where the advanced settings do not show N, just B or BG, and no auto.

Since your model card is a 1x1 card, the fastest it can connect at is 72 MBPS, so all I can tell you is that it is working correctly, and as fast as it can.

If it was a 2x2 wireless N card, it would have been able to connect at 144 MBPS on the 2.4 GHz band.

If you don't have any devices that work on wireless G, like I do, you can see if changing your router's 2.4 GHz band setting to N only, makes a difference.  But I think that card is maxed out at 72 MBPS.

Usually the default router broadcast setting is mixed.

On my router's 5.0 GHz band setting, I do have that set to N only.

I have some wireless A/G cards, but they can work on the 2.4 GHz band, so that is where I connect them to, since the max for A or G is 54 MBPS, it makes no difference where I connect those notebooks to.

But having the 5.0 Band set to N only, doubles the connection speed for my 2x2 cards.

[jacquesvan]

Thank you

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.