Mike - you mean 5mhz and 10mhz channels? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > The Atheros Deliberant cards will do half and quarter channels on G. > > > At 10:42 AM 10/1/2009, you wrote: > >If you aren't sectorized, you should do that first. > > > >Neither normal b or g or b/g are ideal in high noise. I don't mix. > > > >I like a little better g-mode on 10mhz channels using radio cards that > >support listening on 5/10 mhz channels like the xr2. (Many listen on > >20mhz) You're more than twice as likely to find a clearer channel. > > > >On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:58:30AM -0500, Jason Hensley wrote: > > > In 2.4 land, if you have a lot of noise, which protocol is better - B > or G? > > > Is it better to run an AP as locked into one mode or is it OK to > > do a mix? > > > > > > Max I want off of 2.4 customers is 3meg so not that worried about the > extra > > > speed that G will provide, but, I would like to know which is more > stable? > > > I've always thought that B was more stable overall but just provided > less > > > bandwidth. I've gotten some info that may counter that. What's the > > > real-world experience with folks in a high-noise environment, combined > with > > > a higher useage AP? > > > > > > I've got an AP that we've run in B mode only for a while. We've > started > > > having problems with it - speeds go from 3meg at the customer to 200k > and > > > fluctuate constantly. We've worked with RTS, ACK timeouts, etc etc and > > > nothing seems to have improved the stability. For testing purposes we > put > > > up another AP right next to the one we're having trouble > > with. Switched two > > > of our gaming clients to that one (setup as G mode only) and they > > seem to be > > > doing better, but not quite as good as we feel they could be. This is > on > > > Deliberant AP's (Duos). The backhaul part of it is not the issue - we > can > > > pull close to 15meg back to our office when cabled into the AP. We > have > > > other Deliberant APs that are running MANY more clients than this one > so we > > > know it's not limitations of the equipment. AP is on top of a water > tower. > > > Have taken all clients off and brought them back on one by one and it > did > > > not reveal anything significant. With just one customer on the AP > started > > > acting up again. Swapped radios in the AP thinking we could have one > going > > > bad and still no luck. > > > > > > 2.4 antennas are H-pol. We have a ton of noise in the area, but we've > been > > > through basically every channel and it did not help either. Other AP's > in > > > the vicinity are performing fine. Thought of the multipath issue so we > > > raised our test AP up a little higher than the other one. As I said, > the > > > test AP seems to be better, but next to it on top of the tower we can > get > > > around 8 or 9 meg down (locked into G mode), but at the CPE's we're > still > > > barely getting 2.5-2.8meg. > > > > > > Any thoughts? We changed everything we can. The new "test" AP has a > 9db > > > antenna compared to the 13db on the "production" AP. Other than that, > they > > > are identical as far as equipment goes. > > > > > > So, back to the subject question though, what's real-world experience > with > > > G-only mode in the field? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > WISPA Wants You! 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