Why will my Asus N53 Adapter Not Show My 5Ghz N Network ?

[vincej]

I have 2 desktops. Both use an Asus N53 wireless adapter. One desktop is a Windows7 box. The other a Windows 8.1. The windows 8.1 box will *not* see the 5Ghz N network meanwhile, the Win 7 box is fine. The Win 8 box does see the 2.4 ghz G network.

I have gone into the device manager and enabled 802.11N inside the win 8 box to no effect.

I can not see anything in the N53 utility manager that I could change to make things better.

Could someone tell me please what might be going wrong and how I can fix it ?

Many Thanks !

 

[kanewolf]

I don't specifically see Windows 8.1 support on the Asus site. They have 8.0 drivers, but the last update was November 2012. It might just have a compatibility problem with 8.1 ...

Actually, I looked for the USB-N53 not realizing there was also a PCI version. Which do you have?

 

[kanewolf]

I did a search and found THIS answer -- http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1693495/asus-usb-n53-detect-5ghz.html#12103237 -- sounds like your problem (again if you have the USB version).

 

[vincej]

I don't specifically see Windows 8.1 support on the Asus site. They have 8.0 drivers, but the last update was November 2012. It might just have a compatibility problem with 8.1 ...

Actually, I looked for the USB-N53 not realizing there was also a PCI version. Which do you have?

I have the USB version - thanks for your help.

 

[kanewolf]

I don't specifically see Windows 8.1 support on the Asus site. They have 8.0 drivers, but the last update was November 2012. It might just have a compatibility problem with 8.1 ...

Actually, I looked for the USB-N53 not realizing there was also a PCI version. Which do you have?

I have the USB version - thanks for your help.

Did the linked thread with the updated driver fix your problem also?

 

[vincej]

I did a search and found THIS answer -- http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1693495/asus-usb-n53-detect-5ghz.html#12103237 -- sounds like your problem (again if you have the USB version).

I downloaded the driver from http://www.driverscape.com/download/ralink-rt3572-802.11a-b-g-n-wireless-lan-usb-device

since the published link is now 404.

My concern is that it is an exe which does not look right to me. I mean typically you install drivers through the device manager not by double clicking an exe. What do you think ?

 

[kanewolf]

I did a search and found THIS answer -- http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1693495/asus-usb-n53-detect-5ghz.html#12103237 -- sounds like your problem (again if you have the USB version).

I downloaded the driver from http://www.driverscape.com/download/ralink-rt3572-802.11a-b-g-n-wireless-lan-usb-device

since the published link is now 404.

My concern is that it is an exe which does not look right to me. I mean typically you install drivers through the device manager not by double clicking an exe. What do you think ?

This should be the equivalent link to the first article. I didn't go through all the download steps. I won't use sites like those drivers consolidators. Too much risk of "side effects".

 

[hang-the-9]

I did a search and found THIS answer -- http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1693495/asus-usb-n53-detect-5ghz.html#12103237 -- sounds like your problem (again if you have the USB version).

I downloaded the driver from http://www.driverscape.com/download/ralink-rt3572-802.11a-b-g-n-wireless-lan-usb-device

since the published link is now 404.

My concern is that it is an exe which does not look right to me. I mean typically you install drivers through the device manager not by double clicking an exe. What do you think ?

Many (most actually) drivers are downloaded as an exe file. Or possibly a zip file. Then they either extract the drivers into a directory for a manual setup though device manager like you said or run the driver setup.

 

[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...

 

[kanewolf]

Good to know. I have all my 5Ghz set to the 1xx channels.