I live in the middle of the woods, and I generally discourage the use of things like bluetooth at my house. So, 2.4Ghz works ok for me. But if you actually have neighbors, and own / use a microwave oven, and use bluetooth gadgetry, and any other number of things that can / do emit into the 2.4Ghz spectrum, I have to agree with Frank. Put your 11n traffic into the 5Ghz space, and leave everyone else in the 2.4Ghz space. 2.4Ghz is noisy and crowded and just not a lot of fun. I have a long list of funny / disheartening storries about 2.4Ghz and wifi at a number of my employer's locations .... Frank, good point too about the channel width. And 802.11ac puts 80 and 160 Mhz channels on the horizon .. but ... who gives a hoot, when (if you choose to play nice with others) you still have to honor those neighbors of your using the 20Mhz channel width? Ugh, wireless can be such a head ache. Dude, John, just run some cables. --Adam On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:34:34AM -0400, Frank Sweetser wrote:
On 10/13/2010 11:23 AM, John Stoffel wrote:
My only worry is that all my core network is in the basement, but I have my current WAP upstairs in a central-ish location. And my wife's wireless is upstairs too... But replacing my WRAP board with something with more ports which I can break out more would be good to... decisions, decisions...
Can you put different antennas on the netgear?
Not on this particular model, no. Sadly, there aren't very many external 11n antenna options on the market yet. That said, 11n does have a little better penetration than a/b/g, so it may work out for you anyway. I have mine in my basement, and it works quite well in my 2nd floor bedroom.
Thanks for all the feedback, now I'm leaning Netgear... :]
Many of the new Netgears actually run a modified OpenWRT from the factory (the older 7.x version from what I can tell on my WNDR3700).
A nice 2.4-only 3x3 AP with external antenna connectors is the TP-Link TL-1043ND. It also runs OpenWRT from the factory. Sadly, this one isn't reviewed on smallnetbuilder.com.
Another forum with router/wireless hacking info on it:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/9?g=3
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