John, Yea Apple isn't always the best at providing detailed stats. The iPhone 4 does do .11n in the 2.4GHz space with a 1x1 antenna (at least as far as I've seen). There should be a bit of performance increase over the older models due to a few efficiencies with 11n. We haven't run any detailed tests ourselves, but so far haven't seen any real issues. Also I've published some of our wifi usage stats (including iPhone) to my blog at www.freshlymobile.com<http://www.freshlymobile.com> (click on UW Mobile stats at the top for the most recent look).
Take care David David Morton Director, Mobile Communication Strategies University of Washington dmor...@u.washington.edu<mailto:dmor...@u.washington.edu> tel 206.221.7814 ---------------------------------------------- www.freshlymobile.com a fresh look at mobility ---------------------------------------------- On Aug 24, 2010, at 8:03 AM, <j...@nww.com<mailto:j...@nww.com>> wrote: Stan, What kind of 11n data rates and throughput are you seeing in the 2.4 band? Also, I think iPhone 4 has only a single Wi-Fi antenna, so it doesn't benefit (or benefit as much) as a 2x2 or 3x3 MIMO laptop. Have you done any i4 performance metrics? I'm trying to get 11n implementation details from Apple, but so far they've only referred me to the Web i4 spec sheet. Regards, John Cox Senior Editor Network World From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Brooks, Stan Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:00 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Any issues with iPhone 4 and 2.4GHz 802.11n? John, At Emory University, we’ve just completed upgrading our ResHalls to 802.11n and are now working on our academic buildings as part of a system-wide upgrade to 802.11n. We’ve moved from single radio b/g APs to dual radio a/b/g/n APs. We are running 802.11n (backwards compatible to b/g) on our 2.4GHz radios, but without the 40MHz (high-throughput) channel plan. In fact I (and most wireless engineers) would advise against running 40MHz channels at 2.4GHz. We do run the 40MHz channels in the 5GHz band, however. That said, 802.11n with standard 20MHz channels does give marked improvement over 802.11b/g because of other dot11n technologies – multiple special streams, frame aggregation, etc. >>-> Stan Brooks - CWNA/CWSP Emory University University Technology Services 404.727.0226 AIM/Y!/Twitter: WLANstan MSN: wlans...@hotmail.com<mailto:wlans...@hotmail.com> GoogleTalk: wlans...@gmail.com<mailto:wlans...@gmail.com> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of j...@nww.com<mailto:j...@nww.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:08 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Any issues with iPhone 4 and 2.4GHz 802.11n? Chris, Thanks. Your observation on 40Mhz limiting the channel options in 2.4 band fits with what I've learned also. As I mentioned in my direct reply, your email reminded me -- and I should have thought of this -- that of course the same 3-channel "limitation" exists for 11b/g iPhones. But…what I'm wondering is if the iPhone 4's demand or preference for 11n makes the situation more problematic, especially in a mixed-client environment -- when b/g iPhones are associating to the same 11n access point? Regards, John Cox Senior Editor Network World From: Chris Murphy [mailto:ch...@mit.edu] Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 7:28 PM To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv Cc: John Cox Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Any issues with iPhone 4 and 2.4GHz 802.11n? John, I don't think there is much of an issue here, unless there is a requirement that the iPhone 4's need the bandwidth possible using 40Mhz channels. Just about every design guideline I've seen, and every conversation I've had with engineers at various networking companies, considers using 40Mhz channels at 2.4Ghz to be a bad idea, due to the loss of what little flexibility one has with channel layout as well as with adverse effects on neighboring networks in crowded areas (the "anti-social" effect), so here at least we never considered it. -Chris On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:12 AM, <j...@nww.com<mailto:j...@nww.com>> <j...@nww.com<mailto:j...@nww.com>> wrote: Folks, I was talking to a higher education IT guy last week; they have a lot of iPhones, and are rollling out iPhone 4's to new freshman and to faculty. As part of this, they upgraded the campus WLAN to 802.11n. BUT, after iPhone 4 was announced, they realized its 11n support was ONLY for the 2.4 GHz band (with of course only 3 non-overlapping channels, and tradeoffs if you merge two of them into one 40MHz channel). In SOME locations, they're having to do some fancy juggling of access points, channel and power settings. Juggling 3 channels in a crowded location clearly is NOT new. But the fact that this is occurring in 11n with a popular client device that often relies on WLAN access, seems noteworthy. I was wondering if anyone else is running into similar issues with iPhone 4 and 11n? I'm going to be writing this up as a "Network World" story today or early Tuesday. If you're interested in emailing/talking briefly with me about this, please just copy any listserv response to (or email me directly at) my NW email: john_...@nww.com<mailto:john_...@nww.com>. Thanks! 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