Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macs prefer b/g over a?

2008-10-06 Thread Julian Y. Koh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macs prefer b/g over a?

2008-10-06 Thread Philippe Hanset
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 -- Philippe Hanset IT Manager University of Tennessee, Knoxville

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macs prefer b/g over a?

2008-10-06 Thread Lee H Badman
@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macs prefer b/g over a? 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