802.11ac

Hello dear community,
I just wanted to share a quick insight with you. I have purchased two of the new Airport Extreme 802.11ac stations yesterday, and have now finished the setup. My layout looks like this :
[FritzBox ADSL router] <---- cable ----> Airport Extreme 1 {wireless} Airport Extreme 2 <---- cable ----> MacMini
[QNAP TS-291Pro] <---- cable -------------^
The two airports are roughly 6 meters from each other (around 20 feet) and don't have direct line of sight. The #2 is configured to 'extend' the first's network.
I get constant 30 MB/sec transferring files from the QNAP over to the MacMini, which makes me a very happy camper!
At first I didn't get that kind of bandwidth because I made the mistake to configure the 2nd airport (the one connected to the MacMini) to be a client on the first's 2.4 GHz wifi network which only gave me access to the b/g/n network. After I changed this to be a client of the 5 GHz (ac) network, I achieved the speeds I was hoping for.
I also do have almost full coverage throughout our house (3 stories, armed concrete walls and floors).
A very nice looking, and very well working product they have built there!
Alain

Hi @Fred-x ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have looked into your issue about your HP Pavilion 17-f002na Notebook and not connecting to the 5Ghz channel
I have searched Microsoft for a fix for this and they indicate on the forums that if you change the router channel to 36, this will resolve the 5 GHz connection issue.
You could turn off IPV6 for the notebook. Some say this helps. Some also indicate to turn off the 5GHz all together.
Fix this problem Microsoft Fix it 50413
Hope this is helpful.
Thanks.
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