Is anyone using the various band steering methods to nudge clients over to the 5ghz band?
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Brian Helman <bhel...@salemstate.edu>wrote: > I think the newer Macs and iOS devices are dual band. The problem is you > can’t tell them which band to use, so they connect to the strongest signal. > Unfortunately, that doesn’t always mean the “better” signal.**** > > ** ** > > -Brian**** > > ** ** > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Coehoorn, Joel > *Sent:* Sunday, September 25, 2011 10:11 AM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disappointing numbers of 5ghz clients**** > > ** ** > > There was another thread on this same listserv -a month or two back > basically complaining about the lack of consumer laptops with 5ghz radios. > When your average student or parent goes to buy a laptop for college, > pretty much everything they see is still 2.4Ghz. Even if they're looking for > 5Ghz (and few do), most laptops just advertise for b/g/n and don't otherwise > tell you what spectrum it will use. The result is exactly what you're > seeing: the cleaner 5Ghz band is barely used, and students complain about > throughput on 2.4Ghz. Hopefully by next year's buying season we're seeing > more 5Ghz laptops in the market, but even then it will take a while before > your upperclassmen have the technology.**** > > > **** > > Joel Coehoorn**** > > IT Director**** > > 402.363.5603**** > > > > **** > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Jennifer Francis Wilson < > jfwils...@uclan.ac.uk> wrote:**** > > Anyone happy with the numbers of 5ghz clients connecting to their networks, > compared to 2.4ghz clients? > > I'm only seeing around 25% of clients on 5ghz, despite having a decent > density of dual radio 2.4/5ghz APs with band select switched on. > > A reasonable percentage of the 5ghz clients are from laptops we loan out > which we know connect to 5ghz most of the time. > > Most clients seem to either not be 5ghz capable or their wireless > NICs/drivers aren't choosing the 5ghz signal. > > (we have 802.11n on both 2.4 and 5ghz, with 20mhz channels on 5ghz and use > the same ssids on both bands) > > Jen. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.**** > > ** ** > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** ** > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > -- /rf ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
