[161055] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Sun Feb 24 23:58:27 2013
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Owen DeLong'" <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <DB6C9D7D-A9B6-4E1F-AE68-5B4C91C79703@delong.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:56:38 -0600
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The IEEE 802.11n standards do not require 5 GHz support. It's typical, but
not necessary.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 2:07 PM
To: Jay Ashworth
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network
On Feb 17, 2013, at 08:33 , Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Howard" <scott@doc.net.au>
>
>>> A VPN or SSH session (which is what most hotel guests traveling for
>>> work will do) won't cache at all well, so this is a very bad idea.
>>> Might improve some things, but not the really important ones.
>>
>> The chances of the average hotel wifi user even knowing what SSH means
>> is close to zero.
>
> {{citation-needed}}
>
>> As an aside, I was sitting in JFK airport (terminal 4) a few days ago and
>> having a shocking time getting a good internet connection - even from my
>> own Mifi. I fired up inSSIDer, and within a few seconds it had detected
>> 122 AP's...
>
> Yup; B/G/N congestion is a real problem. Nice that the latest generation
> of both mifi's and cellphones all seem to do A as well, in addition to
> current-gen business laptops (my x61 is almost 5 years old, and speaks A).
>
I think by A you actually mean 5Ghz N. A doesn't do much better than G,
though
you still have the advantage of wider channels and less frequency congestion
with other uses.
Owen
