> I've stayed at this same motel location every year for the last several > years and it has always worked until this year. The desk clerk claimed > there have been no changes to their system, but indicated that some > clients using laptops "just can't connect" (and implied that smartphone > users do not have any problem)."
This might be a case of a network using 40MHz wide channel. I have personally experienced the same. it's faster for 802.11n, but it drops legacy support for 802.11b/g, which uses 20MHz wide channels. Unfortunately, we do not yet have 802.11n support. I may work on it eventually.
