[clue] networking question - wireless

Charles Burton charles.d.burton at gmail.com
Fri May 20 20:34:54 MDT 2011


Also something to think about other than frequency congestion is that higher
freqs the signal doesn't travel as well through objects.  This means that
walls and whatnot will cause more loss.  Probably not a problem in an
apartment though.
On May 20, 2011 7:30 PM, "Mike Bean" <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
> For various reasons I ended up having to fiddle with my router this
> evening. Question, is there any practical reason not to use the 5GHZ band
> instead of the 2.4?? I live in an apartment, there's a fair number of
other
> networks, I'm thinking it might be a good idea not to broadcast and use
the
> 5GHZ, but since networking isn't my strong suit, I thought I'd ask for
> advice?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cluedenver.org/pipermail/clue/attachments/20110520/363c7b6d/attachment.html 


More information about the clue mailing list