We dropped 802.11b this time last year. I haven't received one complaint, and
the performance increase was dramatic. Your mileage may vary, but I found that
APs would go into b/g protection mode if they thought an 11b client "might" be
around. What resulted was a situation where about half of our APs were in
protection mode at any given time, even though not a single 802.11b client was
connected.
- Craig
SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Network Services
Craig Simons
Network and Systems Administrator
Phone: 778-782-8036
Cell: 604-649-7977
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: simonscraig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd M. Hall" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 27 September, 2012 05:54:59
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds
This has been discussed in the past, but it has been a long time.
We're at the point that we have to turn off the lower connection rates on our
campus. I'm curious what other schools have done and the positive/negative
results from the changes. We have disabled 1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbps in some of
our buildings with great success, but some might argue to just eliminate 1 & 2
Mbps rates. Also, I'd be interested to hear from schools that have not disabled
these rates and why not.
--
Todd M. Hall
Sr. Network Analyst
Information Technology Services
Mississippi State University
[email protected]
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