The majority of the drivers allow this to be set in the device manager (note this applies to windows only since apple does not support A yet) But for my broadcom card, I go into the device manager and then dig down to my wireless card. Under the advanced tab there are a great number of preferences that can be set. One of them is band preference. the choices are a, b/g, or none for no preference. The Intel chipset has similar preferences that allow that to set in roughly the same way.
Currently we probably have just as many users on A as we do on B/G. We are in the very early phases of our wireless roll out and still have a good ratio of university machines i.e teachers, administrators, and our six tablet carts to student machines.
Nolan Banks
FHSU Wireless Network Administrator
(785) 628-5688
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How do you make them prefer A?
From: Nolan Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11a
Here at FHSU we just finished deploying 250+ AP's to cover the majority of our campus. We enabled 802.11 A/B/G on our network with the understand that the majority of our students will be using B/G. However we are purchasing all university laptops to be A/B/G and are setting them to prefer 802.11 A If anything this well help with load on the network, by not having university owned machines and student machines competing for bandwidth. I don't foresee any additional support problems from deploying A. I consider the additional amount of channels to provide more separation to be a great feature of A.
Nolan Banks
FHSU Wireless Network Administrator
(785) 628-5688
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