I come across cheaper NICs out there that actually support 5ghz, but don't support the DFS channels! Heck even Google with its Nexus devices don't enable DFS in the OS even though the NICs can do it..
DFS is costlier to implement so they go the cheap route. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > Once upon a time, Scott Voll <[email protected]> said: > > I hear what everyone is saying.... but I thought 2.4ghz was being > > deprecated? When will manufactures stop producing it? > > "being deprecated"? [citation needed] > > AFAIK the main reason for some things moving to other ISM bands is that > 2.4GHz is congested. If everybody moved away, then it wouldn't be > congested, and things would use it again. 2.4GHz has advantages over > the higher ISM bands (better propagation at lower power levels), so > there's no technical reason to deprecate it. > > -- > Chris Adams <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
