[161066] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Feb 25 11:36:53 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <000601ce1314$7eaec660$7c0c5320$@iname.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:34:09 -0800
To: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Correct. However, while A is 5Ghz (only), it's not significantly better =
than G.
The true performance gains come from 5Ghz and N together. N on 2.4Ghz =
has
limited benefit over G. N on 5Ghz is significantly better.
Owen
On Feb 24, 2013, at 8:56 PM, "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
> The IEEE 802.11n standards do not require 5 GHz support. It's =
typical, but
> not necessary.
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> Frank
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]=20
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 2:07 PM
> To: Jay Ashworth
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network
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> On Feb 17, 2013, at 08:33 , Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Scott Howard" <scott@doc.net.au>
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>>>> 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.
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>>> The chances of the average hotel wifi user even knowing what SSH =
means
>>> is close to zero.=20
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>> {{citation-needed}}
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>>> 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...
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>> 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 =
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>> current-gen business laptops (my x61 is almost 5 years old, and =
speaks A).
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> 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.
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> Owen
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