Shoot me if i'm wrong, but doesn't a mac prefer MIMO in order to work correctly?
On Sun, June 14, 2015 8:42 pm, Brielle Bruns wrote: > On 6/14/15 12:33 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> >> I am running a TP Link TL-WR1043N which (as TP Link says is a) 802.11n >> router working on 2.4Ghz (no support for 5Ghz). I am running it with >> flashed OpenWRT. >> >> >> >> While using option to pick 40Mhz, I see my Mac only gets 20Mhz to use >> and >> speed is always 130Mbps. There's no other SSID nearby and I am sitting >> next >> to router for testing. >> >> >> This brings me to question - Has anyone successfully used 40Mhz with >> 2.4Ghz >> on 802.11n standard with Apple Macbook? I wonder if it's limitation on >> the >> chipset or something else. >> >> >> > > Everything that I've seen/experienced says that Apple devices won't use > 40mhz channels with 2.4 due to the overlapping bands/lack of good > separation between channels. > > However, I'm not sure if this specifically applies to just the Airport > APs like the Extreme, or to the laptops as well, as I use AE's at home, > and the Unifi APs I do have in service all have 20mhz channels only set > on them to avoid issues. > > > -- > Brielle Bruns > The Summit Open Source Development Group > http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org >
