Laptop Wont Show 5GHz Wifi Connections

Hi:

Did you buy that notebook new?

The specs show Intel 1×1 802.11ac WLAN as you posted, but the Intel Centrino 1000 wireless card is an old single band card, and was never used in your model.

The parts list for your notebook indicates that it came with a Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC .11a/b/g/n/ac (1×1) WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 combination WLAN adapter.

So, either HP made a major error when putting your notebook together, or someone removed the nice AC card and put in a plain old wireless card just so the notebook had wireless.

Also, an AC card may not work on the 5.0 GHz wireless band unless you have a wireless AC router, not a dual band wireless N router.

Nothing you can do about it now other than to replace the wireless card with a better one.

I am going to suggest that you get an even better wireless card than the one that your notebook should have come with, and that is the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC .11 ac 2×2 WiFi + BT 4.0 HP Part # That model should be easily available on Amazon or eBay. Shouldn’t cost more than $25 – $30.

Do your search by the HP part number, not the model of the wireless card.

Here is the service manual for your model. It’s pretty easy to remove and replace the wireless card in that model.

See chapter 5, starting on page 45.

/ctg/Manual/c BTW, if you look in chapter 3, page 21, item 23, (or in chapter 5 on page 44), you will see the list of wireless cards that HP put in that model series.

The Centrino 1000 is nowhere to be found.

Now, if you don’t have an AC router, then you may want to get this Intel dual band N card instead…

Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260AN 802.11 a/b/g/n 2×2 WiFi + BT4.0 HP Part #