On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:49:35AM -0500, Todd M. Hall wrote: > Do you have all of the 802.11b data rates disabled?
Yes. > If so, how long have they been disabled? Two or three years IIRC. > Did you have many complaints when you disabled them? None. > Were there any particular devices that could not connect as a > result? Probably, but we never heard of them. I seem to remember we saw about three 11b clients connected before we killed it. > I'm hoping this information will help us move towards disabling these old > rates. We're beaconing at 24Mpbs. For 2.4ghz the slowest rate we allow allow is 12Mbps, and for 5Gzh the slowest is 24Mbps. The thing to watch out is that your coverage area will drop (which is probably a good thing, but you may need to install more APs...) Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. <[email protected]> Systems Specialist, Infrastructure Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, <[email protected]> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
