If you’re having trouble with your WiFi or just want to know what kind of WiFi your computer can handle, you can use a terminal command to find out which wireless standards will work with it.
- In order to open a terminal window. From within Windows, select the Start button and type terminal in the search field.
- When you press Enter on your keyboard a terminal window will open.
- Now at the command prompt type:
netsh wlan show drivers- Next to the heading Radio types supported, you will find the wireless network protocols supported on your computer.
Note: The speed of your wireless network connection isn’t just about the Wi-Fi card in your computer. It also depends on the wireless standards that your home network supports. However as there are currently seven Wi-Fi standards, all starting with 802.11 and followed by a letter or series of letters. To make things easier to understand, WiFi is more commonly identified by its Wi-Fi generation.
- To close the terminal window simply type:
exit- mydoodads article – How to clear WiFi profiles using Windows terminal.
- mydoodads article – How to quickly find your IP address using the Windows terminal.
- Microsoft store – Windows Terminal app.
- Microsoft article – netsh.
- Wikipedia article – Windows Terminal.
- IEEE SA article – The Evolution of Wi-Fi Technology and Standards.
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