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 Message 21837 
 The Natural Philosopher to All 
 Re: Magic spell for PIOS wifi point. 
 13 Jan 26 14:55:15 
 
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On 13/01/2026 14:45, druck wrote:
> On 12/01/2026 20:16, David Higton wrote:
>> In message <10k2bri$272ps$1@druck.eternal-september.org>
>> ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ druck  wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/01/2026 14:40, David Higton wrote:
>>>> Note that the RPi4 only does one wifi band; I don't know the RPi5.
>>>
>>> The Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4 and 5 have both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wifi bands, the
>>> Zero W, Zero 2W and older Pi's only have 2.4GHz
>>
>> Sorry, I should have been clearer.ÿ It only does one band at once.
>> There is only one radio.
> 
> You can always add another USB WiFi dongle if you want to act as an 
> access point on both bands simultaneously.
> 
> ---druck

I saw something (hostapd) that implies it can in fact do both...

Well in due course I will find out.

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?Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of 
other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"

    -  John K Galbraith



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