Design question for you all: Currently we have b/g enabled on our 2.4ghz radios and a/n on our 5ghz radios as carrot to entice users to buy/use a 5ghz capable wireless adapter. However, even with band preferencing enabled (or steering depending on the vendor), we still have a 75/25% split of 2.4 to 5 users.
So my question is this, is there any point of enabling .11n on the 2.4 radio given that it will be in protection mode most of the time? As I can't really enable channel bonding on the 2.4 band to get the real speed increases of .11n, will users still get better performance overall. More importantly, would I get better performance in a user dense environment (more packets transmitted by .11n clients in the same time-slice thereby freeing up the channel for other clients, etc)? I'm of the opinion that guaranteeing great wireless performance is a lost cause on the 2.4 band, but I'd like to tweak as many things as possible to get the best performance in dense areas. Regards, Craig -------------------------------------- Craig Simons Network Operations Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC, Canada em. [email protected] ph. 778-782-8036 ce. 604-649-7977 tw. twitter.com/simonscraig -------------------------------------- ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
