Has anyone found a way to force Macs to prefer
802.11a over 802.11b/g?
We provide in places with high wireless demand 802.11a in addition
to 802.11b/g, but Macs never seem to join 802.11a (except in a few random
cases)
In the areas with 802.11n we have solved the problem by having one Radio
We are running a meru networks wireless network at the hospital and I
have a copy of AirMagnet laptop analyzer (now called wifi analyzer).
The problem I'm running into with this program is that since it is made
for most other networks that don't share a bssid I can't tell which
access point's
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At 09:35 -0400 10/6/2008, Philippe Hanset wrote:
Has anyone found a way to force Macs to prefer
802.11a over 802.11b/g?
We provide in places with high wireless demand 802.11a in addition
to 802.11b/g, but Macs never seem to join 802.11a (except in a
Julian,
We are experiencing the issue with Proxim Ap-4000 (a/b/g APs)
AND Aruba APs as well, with OSX 10.5.4.
All PCs around me were picking 802.11a
We found a fix: run the Mac on XP ;-)
Philippe
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Philippe Hanset
IT Manager
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Julian,
That's not a problem we've run into yet insert sound of knocking on wood. In
fact we've seen the opposite from time to time with clients in some of our
older b/g only infrastructure buildings preferring the 802.11a from the
building next door.
If you guys are an Aruba house and
We were seeing the same thing Jim mentioned- Macs clinging like grim
death to anemic 11a cells when better 11g was available. The Apple tech
note for fixing the condition said along the lines of ... in your
AirPort base station, disable the 11a radio as if Macs were never used
in the Enterprise. I
