If you want to use both bands with the same PC you would need 2 PC wireless
cards. I believe that there are download applications that will use two
cards at the same time to reduce download time. AFAIK a more common use of
the dual functionality is to support two different wireless client
concurrently.

"Ace Fekay [Microsoft Certified Trainer]" <aceman@mvps.RemoveThisPart.org>
wrote in message news:O6drYK59JHA.5040@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> "Patrick Whittle" <patrick_whittle********.com> wrote in message
> news:%23pYXM829JHA.1488@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>I ended up buying an external D-Link Xtreme N Dual Band gigbit router. I
>>know enough about 802.11n from previous, but do you know streaming...
>>High-Definition, and other media? ... the 5GHz band.
>>
>> [url]http://support.dlink.ca/products/view.asp?productid=DIR%2D825[/url][/color]
>
> No, not really, at least not with wireless, if that's what you mean? From
> what it says at that link, it can send/receive data on two different bands
> simultaneously, but I would assume to get this to work, you'll need a
> Dlink card that supports their implementation.
>
> Ace[/color]