[181069] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 2.4Ghz 40Mhz 802.11n wifi and Apple Macbook
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Mon Jun 15 13:39:56 2015
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From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:39:48 -0600
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On 6/14/15 9:56 PM, Alexander Maassen wrote:
> Shoot me if i'm wrong, but doesn't a mac prefer MIMO in order to work
> correctly?
You still get a nice performance boost with 802.11b/g/n in 2.4 range
even at 20mhz, but if you go to 40mhz, you'll be splattering all over
the entire 2.4 band.
This is why all of the pre-N performance enhancements for G were
troublemakers if you had multiple wireless networks in the same area.
You turn it on, and one of two things happen - you either wreck
performance of everyone else on that band, or everyone else wrecks your
performance.
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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
