Asus usb-n53 won't detect 5ghz

[ericvangs14]

Hello.

Very frustrated. have cisco e4200v2. broadcasts both 2.4 and 5ghz.

work lenovo t430 connects fine to 5ghz. home laptop with usb adapter can't detect 5ghz. you can see inssider can see the 5ghz network but Asus Wireless Manager can't see it. it only sees the 2.4.

i believe all drivers are up to date. utility is up to date as well.

someone tell me it's a stupid configuration oversight and not a defected adapter.

thank you for any help.

~eric

 

[claude l]

I had the same problem with Asus USBN53 adapter. I found the solution. I could not connect to 5 GHz. I was able to connect only to 2.4 GHz only at 144 Mbps. I found that Asus usb N53 uses chip Ralink RT-3572 so I went to Ralink driver download site ( Mediatek ) and I download their newer driver for that chip. I deinstall my original driver from the device manager ( Network adapter ) and I install the driver from Mediatek. Here is the link http://www.mediatek.com/_en/07_downloads/01_windows.php . I have windows 8.1 pro. Now I have 2.4 GHz and 5 Ghz and I am connected to 2.4 Ghz at 300 Mbps. Hope it help

 

[horleaks]

thanks claude. it's work.

 

[jason mimms]

thanks claude. it's work. Hi I'm having same problem I have been to the site but there are a few on there that have rt- xx but not sure what file could you tell us what file it was you had to download thx I'm also running win 8.1 pro

 

[g90814]

Actually this thread fixed 5Ghz for me too... I used the mediatek driver and it works fine now. Exact same adapter as 'solution' above, ASUS USB-N53.

 

[tezarin]

I am facing the same problem and used your suggestion. But that didn't fix it for me. I downloaded the driver I found here: http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/usb/
USB (RT2870/ RT2770/ RT307X/ RT2070 RT357X/ RT3370/ RT8070/ RT5X7X/ MT7610/ MT7601/MT7612U)

Previously had the original driver and utility unit installed from the CD it came with. Can you explain exactly which new driver you installed and how you properly uninstalled the old one?

 

[tako714]

I was able to resolve the problem after contacting ASUS.
One of the suggestion was to manually set the channel to one of the following 149、153、157、161、165.
I changed it to 153 and voila, it's fixed.

This makes me suspect that USB-N53 doesn't use the 60, 64 channel...

 

[Ononeemas]

This is what helped me with connecting to 5g channel on my windows 10: http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/usb/
Driver that was installed by default didn't work well. I see all previous links 404'd so I post new. If my link too will 404 so just search for RT357X/RT3572 driver on http://mediatek.com

 

[erfoster]

Claude's solution worked for me. I just installed Windows 10. Could not find 5g, although 2.4g worked fine.

I downloaded the new driver at http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/usb/ The download process was not immediately apparent. After filling in my name, e-mail address and the CAPTCHA and clicking Submit at the bottom, I could download.

Before opening the downloaded file, I went to Control Panel and opened Device Manager. The USB-N53 adapter was under Network Adapter. I double clicked that and selected the Driver tab. Clicked the Uninstall button and closed Device Manager and Control Panel. I then opened the downloaded file and installed the driver.

After installation, I clicked the Wi-Fi symbol in the Notification Area. The 5g was there. Selected that and entered the key. Everything worked.

Thanks, Claude!

 

[Draiakaiden]

This worked for me too with windows 10.
1. I uninstalled the driver from the device manager.
2. I chose the option to only install the driver from the mediatek package. (still using asus usb n-53 utility)
3. As soon as the driver was installed the asus utility popped open and my 5g was listed, showing 300mbps connection.

Thanks a ton for this post cause i have no idea how you figured this out.

 

[DragonFox]

This does not work for me

In the device settings windows i can set the device to 5GHz only and by default it's set to 2.4GHz + 5GHz
Even if i do this, i can still only see my 2.4GH network but not my 5GHz network.

The network i'm trying to connect to is on channel 48 and this works fine on my windows 8.1 laptop as well as my windows 7/10 dualboot machine (using another n53 stick) so i'm clueless here.

I have the latest driver by mediatek installed on this win10 which can't see beyond 2.4GHz

 

[DragonFox]

Update: re-installing the mediatek driver after asus driver + utility fixed this for me

 

[Guy_Wigg]

OK, I had the same problem. Windows 10 box showing the latest driver but it did not see the 5G network. My PC had the the 5.1.25 driver dated 10/28/2015. I went into the properties of the driver (Device Manager > Network Adaptors> Right click and choose Properties) and went to the Advanced tab. There,under channel mode, I selected 5G only. When I did this, suddenly all of the 5G networks around me showed up including mine. Picked it and worked. The defautl is 2g +5g which should show both, but didn't in my case. Hope this helps.

 

[DragonFox]

OK, I had the same problem. Windows 10 box showing the latest driver but it did not see the 5G network. My PC had the the 5.1.25 driver dated 10/28/2015. I went into the properties of the driver (Device Manager > Network Adaptors> Right click and choose Properties) and went to the Advanced tab. There,under channel mode, I selected 5G only. When I did this, suddenly all of the 5G networks around me showed up including mine. Picked it and worked. The defautl is 2g +5g which should show both, but didn't in my case. Hope this helps.

Did not help. Though a while ago Asus released a proper driver that works just fine with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. That solved my problem.