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This article answers the following question: Why am I unable to connect to 802.11 a/n 5 GHz wireless networks with my Dell Wireless-N 1530, 1510, or 1490 card? Dell Wireless-N WLAN card issues You may experience an issue with your Dell Wireless-N WLAN card where it is unable to connect to or disconnects intermittently from 802.11 a/n 5 GHZ wireless networks; however, the WLAN card is able to connect to 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz networks. The following Dell Wireless- N cards are experiencing this issue: DW1530DW1510DW1490 5.100.235.13, A37 Update Dell Wireless-N WLAN card driver To resolve this issue, update the Dell Wireless-N WLAN card driver to a version later than 5.100.82.112 from Product Support. Note: A problem was identified in the Region Settings within the previous WLAN driver. As a workaround, changing the registry setting in autocountrydiscovery to zero and country to your specific location, then disabling and enabling the WLAN adapter allowed the connection to be established.