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Dear all,

I would like to connect my computer using 802.11ax to my router, to investigate some Wifi 6 specifics with wireshark. The router settings allow for a Wifi6 connection. The wifi adapter of my computer is also Wifi 6 compatible.

However, when I capture the wifi traffic, it seems as if both the router and the computer use the 802.11g protocol, instead of 802.11ax, i.e. the capture filter wlan_radio.phy == 6 applies.

Is there any way to easily setup a Wifi 6 connection?

Dear all,

I would like to connect my computer using 802.11ax to my router, to investigate some Wifi 6 specifics with wireshark. The router settings allow for a Wifi6 connection. The wifi adapter of my computer is also Wifi 6 compatible.

However, when I capture the wifi traffic, it seems as if both the router and the computer use the 802.11g 802.11a protocol, instead of 802.11ax, i.e. the capture filter wlan_radio.phy == 6 5 applies.

Is there any way to easily setup a Wifi 6 connection?

Dear all,

I would like to connect my computer using 802.11ax to my router, to investigate some Wifi 6 specifics with wireshark. The router settings allow for a Wifi6 connection. The wifi adapter of my computer is also Wifi 6 compatible.

However, when I capture the wifi traffic, it seems as if both the router and the computer use the 802.11a protocol, instead of 802.11ax, i.e. the capture filter wlan_radio.phy == 5 applies.

Is there any way to easily setup a Wifi 6 connection?

Background: I can capture wifi packets of my Lenovo X1 carbon. The management frames of the association requests contain "tag: HT capabilities, Tag: VHT capabilities, Ext Tag: HE capabilities". However, the provided 802.11 radio informations shows "PHY type: 802.11a (OFDM) (5)". The HE capabilities seem to contradict PHY type = 5?