RE: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

["Frank Bulk" <frnkblk () iname com>]

The IEEE 802.11n standards do not require 5 GHz support.  It's typical, but
not necessary.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen () delong com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 2:07 PM
To: Jay Ashworth
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network


On Feb 17, 2013, at 08:33 , Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Howard" <scott () doc net au>
>
> > > A VPN or SSH session (which is what most hotel guests traveling for
> > > work will do) won't cache at all well, so this is a very bad idea.
> > > Might improve some things, but not the really important ones.
> >
> > The chances of the average hotel wifi user even knowing what SSH means
> > is close to zero. 
>
> {{citation-needed}}
>
> > As an aside, I was sitting in JFK airport (terminal 4) a few days ago and
> > having a shocking time getting a good internet connection - even from my
> > own Mifi. I fired up inSSIDer, and within a few seconds it had detected
> > 122 AP's...
>
> Yup; B/G/N congestion is a real problem.  Nice that the latest generation
> of both mifi's and cellphones all seem to do A as well, in addition to 
> current-gen business laptops (my x61 is almost 5 years old, and speaks A).

I think by A you actually mean 5Ghz N. A doesn't do much better than G,
though
you still have the advantage of wider channels and less frequency congestion
with other uses.

Owen