[156308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Sep 14 09:33:45 2012
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:32:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <505219B1.2020104@toaster.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Lazar" <knife@toaster.net>
> WLAN in large conferences certainly is a challenge. You basically want
> to get as many people on 5GHz as possible due to more available
> channels. 2.4GHz becomes quite noisy.
And here you raise an interesting question: do dual band wifi clients *show
which band a network is on*? Will they prefer the A band AP automatically
in any way?
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
