So I’ve had a regular steam deck since launch, and I’ve never dealt with the 5ghz WiFi issue. Yesterday I got my new oled model, and it refuses to connect to the 5ghz WiFi. It works with the 2.4, but not the 5. I’ve tried the power save setting, and still no luck. I really don’t want to send it back, but the download speed on the 2.4 is horrendous. Any ideas how to fix this easily?

  • savageApostle@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    There is an entire thread on the Steam Forums for this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/4038101970203502664/?ctp=8

    The short of it is that disabling the 160hz band (which is related to WiFi 6 in some way) helps.

    In order to get WiFi working for me (with my LE SD and my router being a Netgear Nighthawk RAX35) I had to

    • Disable 160hz by setting my 5GHz mode to “up to 1200 Mbps”
    • Factory Reset SD
    • Enter password to my 5GHz network, it failed to connect
    • Restart SD from Steam Menu
    • Attempt to connect again, no luck
    • Put SD to sleep with power button
    • Came back some time later and it was connected, and I was able to finish setup
    • Connection works but it takes about 2 minutes after waking from sleep to re-connect to WiFi