TomatoUSB

I'm officially desperate…
I've spent 2 hours reading old postings and can't seem to find a solution. I simply don't have an option to see and enable the wireless 5 Ghz band.

-I've set my "wireless network mode" to use "N only"

The E2500 is simultaneous dual band and should be able to broadcast both a 2.4 and 5 Ghz at the same time but I'm officially at a stalemate in terms of what to do next…

PS: I accidentally posted this as a response on another thread. Decided to create new thread instead.

Absolutely no clue what was wrong. But after 4 hours of troubleshooting I simply went Administration>Configuration>Restore Default Configuration > Thorough option that erases all data in NVRAM

5 Ghz radio now available to configure.
Problem resolved!

For those of you having problems finding the 5Ghz option, make sure USB Support is turned 'ON' or 'enabled' in you options. I was having the same problem, did a reset to default and 5Ghz option appeared again. Since my E2500 router does not have USB I decided to turn 'OFF' the service and that is when I saw the 5Ghz option disappear again.

Read somewhere that this band is emulated or operated via USB in this router model but I cannot find the website nor confirm this information. All that I can say is what I found while playing with the menu options.

You might need to download a version of Tomato for E2500 that supports USB if you do not see the USB menu on the left.

Hope it helps.