Julian, We are experiencing the issue with Proxim Ap-4000 (a/b/g APs) AND Aruba APs as well, with OSX 10.5.4. All PCs around me were picking 802.11a
We found a fix: run the Mac on XP ;-) Philippe ---------------------------------- Philippe Hanset IT Manager University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Information Technology Network Services 108 James D Hoskins Library 1400 Cumberland Ave Knoxville, TN 37996 Tel: 1-865-9746555 phanset at utk dot edu ---------------------------------- On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Julian Y. Koh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 09:35 -0400 10/6/2008, Philippe Hanset wrote: > >Has anyone found a way to force Macs to prefer > >802.11a over 802.11b/g? > > > >We provide in places with high wireless demand 802.11a in addition > >to 802.11b/g, but Macs never seem to join 802.11a (except in a few random > >cases) > > We've been working on similar issues with Aruba, and they claim that there > is a known issue with Mac OS X clients in terms of frequency band > selection. Supposedly according to Apple, clients with Mac OS X 10.5.3 and > higher should prefer the 5GHz band over the 2.4GHz band. But there are > still a bunch of other things going on that we're working on > characterizing. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 9.8.3.4028 > > wj8DBQFI6heDDlQHnMkeAWMRAuiAAJ0dS6b/tpxdLM/PmRkt2Uh8BdbERwCg4rWe > bXueOz7WP4d550aYKlKJ68U= > =6L17 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Julian Y. Koh <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Network Engineer <phone:847-467-5780> > Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University > PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
