[161122] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Tue Feb 26 06:40:36 2013
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:40:23 -0500
In-Reply-To: <F67344F2-D9F5-4149-AD9A-7B34860429C8@delong.com> (Owen DeLong's
message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:56:05 -0800")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
> N on 5Ghz takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the 5Ghz
> channel where A merely replicated G on 5Ghz for all practical
> purposes.
You have that backwards, actually, but the legacy support in 802.11g
for 802.11b clients does represent a performance hit even in the
absence of b-only clients, so claiming that a and g are equivalent is
only true on paper.
-r (802.11a user before 802.11g, still love the relatively unoccupied
5 ghz spectrum)
