No 5 Ghz WiFI connection

[Guest imihai]

Hello,

I do own a Su6 , running the UK stock although I am from Romania, updated and rooted.

I just bought a dual band WIFI router NETIS WF2780 and every device in the house ( 2 laptops+ 3 phones) connects to the 5Ghz connection but my Su6.

I did change settings in router but no luck.

Does your Su6 connects fine to this kind of WIFI ?

Thanks

Edited August 21, 2015 by imihai

[Guest LiNe171]

I doubt it can.. I think max is 2,4 GHz or something.. Mine is 2,4GHz so.. I don't know :\

[Guest Frankish]

Doesn't support it...

[Guest deaglecat]

^^^^ this

[Guest Lee-e]

What's the difference between 2 and 5.  Is it slower?

[Guest imihai]

I have 3 or 4 years old phones and they are able to connect to 5Ghz. I just cant believe a  2015 phone cant do it. And yeah its waY fAster.

[Guest macbreakweeklyfan]

I have 3 or 4 years old phones and they are able to connect to 5Ghz. I just cant believe a  2015 phone cant do it. And yeah its waY fAster.

** I can. The marketing manager says to the engineers "we need to get this phone down to a £125 price point", and the engineer replies "Okay, so we can give them Wifi, but not 5Ghz band as the chipset is $0.50 cheaper with no 5Ghz". It also has no gyroscope; not a huge deal, but gyro silicon also costs money. You may say "Oh it's only 50c", but it's not just a component that you solder onto the board, it needs all the supporting discrete circuitry surrounding it to make it work, and possibly additional PCB real estate for these parts which then makes less space available for other things such as the HUGE battery... so if you had a gyro (and other features) you may have had a lower battery capacity, and then someone would no doubt complain about that too. No matter how small that amount may seem, when you're making 3,000,000 phones, 50p per gyro chip is £1.5M that can be saved by ZTE; quite a substantial saving on the BOM.

Savings all start at the schematic and PCB design level where they compile the BOM (Build Of Materials - a parts list), and trickle right down to the sale of the phone at a lower cost for you. That an EIGHT CORE mobile phone with a 1080p 5.5" IPS panel can be *SOLD* to you for a mere £125 is absolutely incredible... AND they have to make a profit on top to cover dev and tooling costs, not to mention overheads, middle men etc and Voda's profit margin.

Edited August 22, 2015 by macbreakweeklyfan

[Guest trueno2k]

** I can. The marketing manager says to the engineers "we need to get this phone down to a £125 price point", and the engineer replies "Okay, so we can give them Wifi, but not 5Ghz band as the chipset is $0.50 cheaper with no 5Ghz". It also has no gyroscope; not a huge deal, but gyro silicon also costs money. You may say "Oh it's only 50c", but it's not just a component that you solder onto the board, it needs all the supporting discrete circuitry surrounding it to make it work, and possibly additional PCB real estate for these parts which then makes less space available for other things such as the HUGE battery... so if you had a gyro (and other features) you may have had a lower battery capacity, and then someone would no doubt complain about that too. No matter how small that amount may seem, when you're making 3,000,000 phones, 50p per gyro chip is £1.5M that can be saved by ZTE; quite a substantial saving on the BOM.

Savings all start at the schematic and PCB design level where they compile the BOM (Build Of Materials - a parts list), and trickle right down to the sale of the phone at a lower cost for you. That an EIGHT CORE mobile phone with a 1080p 5.5" IPS panel can be *SOLD* to you for a mere £125 is absolutely incredible... AND they have to make a profit on top to cover dev and tooling costs, not to mention overheads, middle men etc and Voda's profit margin.

That's was nicely put!.. Well explained I must say!..