We have the 1 Mbps rate turned off and the Wiis still work OK. I believe they
need 2, though.
Bruce Osborne
Network Engineer
IT Network Services
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From: John Kaftan [mailto:jkaf...@utica.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September
Yep, 2MBps is what they need. We advertise 2 as a basic rate, but disable it
as a transmit rate in our Aruba config. The Wii's seem to work fine with this
config. We haven't had any complaints of any older Wii's not working at the
least.
-Brian
From:
In our environment (Cisco WLC) I could never get Wii's on our wireless
working anyway and recommended using a wired adapter so there were no
clients that we ever reported to be effected by turning off lower data
rates.
I never understood why I couldn't get Wii's to work on an unencrypted
network,
We have been running PAT (NAT) for over 5 years now on our wireless network.
This year we have over 10k concurrent users on wireless. Meru provides
the majority of our wireless network gear. We have 3 SSIDs (captive
portal, 802.1x, and guest). Each of these 3 SSID's is assigned a
single /19
So if you have a dense deployment of AP's, then leaving the lower rates enabled
should not present an issue - at least I've not seen one. Additionally, as my
campus is 75% Macintosh, they tend to connect at 5GHz, so I don't mind having
the lower rates enabled in 2.4GHz to help out all the
