Stadia forcing wi-fi connection to 2.4GHz from 5GHz - Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260

[Gwired]

When I boot my Windows 10 PC on Chrome, I connect to my Wi-fi at 5GHZ.  This will stay this way all day most days.

However, when I get on Stadia connect, and start playing a game it works for maybe 5 minutes, and then it switches to 2.4GHz and it soon thereafter disconnects.  I think this is really weird.   

I am connected to a Netgear Nighthawk that is only 10 feet away or so and a laptop 2 feet away never switches to 2.4Ghz.

I know I could go out and buy a wireless AX adapter for my PC.  But is there anything else I can do?  The last driver update for this was back in 4/29/2019.  

I noticed it switching back and forth so I thought I'd try to disable 2.4Ghz entirely.  Well, that was fun.  I switched the 802.11a/b/g Wireless mode to 1. 5Ghz 802.11a.  Instead of saying oh you let's connect to wireless a, it completely disconnected the card.  During playing.

Is this a bad card?

[ShadowKnight]

Hi @Gwired,

If you already solved this issue please disregarded.

I know this is very late...over 2 months to be exact. I have the same card and I do not have that problem with my 5Ghz network. I dont know if you have a separate 5Ghz network similar to me but that is what is making my connection always stay on. I did notice the card does like to switch to 2.4Ghz when I had my 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz networks had the same name.

I would try and see if separating your 5Ghz from your 2.4Ghz network helps

-Shadow

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