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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark
Here where I live, Bell installed nice, 5GHz Wifi Routers in everyone's homes with a 1gb/s fiber optic connection, but they assigned the same SSID to both the 5Ghz and the 2.4 GHz portions of their routers. Even though people were paying for a 1gb/s transfer speed, most of the time their devices were only giving them an average speed of about 90mb/s because they were connected to the 2.4 Ghz channels and didn't know it.
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5Ghz is not inherently faster than 2.4Ghz. Having one single SSID is a good practice to allow your devices to choose whichever is stronger (and roam between them in the case of mobile devices).