The IEEE 802.11n standards do not require 5 GHz support. It's typical, but not necessary.
Frank -----Original Message----- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 2:07 PM To: Jay Ashworth Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network On Feb 17, 2013, at 08:33 , Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott Howard" <sc...@doc.net.au> > >>> A VPN or SSH session (which is what most hotel guests traveling for >>> work will do) won't cache at all well, so this is a very bad idea. >>> Might improve some things, but not the really important ones. >> >> The chances of the average hotel wifi user even knowing what SSH means >> is close to zero. > > {{citation-needed}} > >> As an aside, I was sitting in JFK airport (terminal 4) a few days ago and >> having a shocking time getting a good internet connection - even from my >> own Mifi. I fired up inSSIDer, and within a few seconds it had detected >> 122 AP's... > > Yup; B/G/N congestion is a real problem. Nice that the latest generation > of both mifi's and cellphones all seem to do A as well, in addition to > current-gen business laptops (my x61 is almost 5 years old, and speaks A). > I think by A you actually mean 5Ghz N. A doesn't do much better than G, though you still have the advantage of wider channels and less frequency congestion with other uses. Owen
