<p>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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 20, 2011 7:30 PM, "Mike Bean" <<a href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com">beandaemon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> For various reasons I ended up having to fiddle with my router this<br>
> evening. Question, is there any practical reason not to use the 5GHZ band<br>> instead of the 2.4?? I live in an apartment, there's a fair number of other<br>> networks, I'm thinking it might be a good idea not to broadcast and use the<br>
> 5GHZ, but since networking isn't my strong suit, I thought I'd ask for<br>> advice?<br></div>