One interesting tidbit to file away is that the Wii console seems to connect more easily if the band is set to 11. I had to set up a couple for netflicks recently and they wouldn't connect if the band was at 6. I set up a vlan on 11 and everything went fine after that.
lopaka ________________________________ From: maccrawj <maccr...@gmail.com> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 10:53:04 AM Subject: Re: [H] Yet another stumbler 1? Dunno what routers you work with but of Linksys, DLink, & Netgear's I've seen they all default to center which is 6. Do a scan of any neighborhood and that's where you'll find 99% of the WAPs. As I said, this is likely because 1 & 11 have major attenuation at their respective lower & upper edge of spectrum because there is not enough room to fit 20mhz centered on the extremes. Showing the actual width characteristics is one of the nice things about how InSSIDer displays scans. On 5/16/2010 3:03 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: > Yes, the true non overlappable channels are 1 6 and 11, but then again, > you can eke out some throughput by going to a less congested channel. > > The thing is that most routers default to 1. > > So I changed mine to 6 and got great benefits. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com > [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of maccrawj > Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:00 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Yet another stumbler > > Good luck on that, on 2.4ghz there are only 1, 6, 11 that don't overlap > and then > factor in the 40mhz vs. 20mhz issue. 1& 11 are nearly useless since > they don't > provide enough spectrum for 20mhz much less 40mhz. > > After years of using Netstumbler to survey, I now use InSSIDer. > > On 5/15/2010 12:30 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: >> To search the SSID's of other AP's and their Channels, in hope that > you can >> set your AP's channel to something less congested and thereby getting > better >> performance :) >> >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Anthony Q. > Martin<amar...@charter.net>wrote: >> >>> What are these? >>> >>> >>> On 5/15/2010 1:33 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>>> Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2875 - Release Date: > 05/15/10 >>>> 02:26:00 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >
