Joel,
Thanks - but to answer Eric directly, I was just saying that I was a
happy camper for most of the week on 802.11a, in contrast to the
problems some people were having on 802.11b. I wasn't making any
particular recommendations, but at the next IETF, if your card can
support 802.11a, give a try and use whichever mode works best for you.
Cheers,
Andy
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At 11/14/2005 09:29 -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Gray, Eric wrote:
Andy,
So, I am confused. Are you saying we should use 802.11a because
it works better or is somehow isolated from malicious or accidental
misuse?
Three things.
chipsets lack support for ibss mode in 802.11a
8 non-overlapping indoor channels in north america, makes the
802.11a radio noise situation more tractable. From a deployment
perspective the map coloring problem is much easier.
All things being equal an a card has signficantly shorter range
range at 5.8ghz than a b card does at 2412ghz, and more surfaces
(airwalls people etc) are opaque. This cuts down on the noise quite a bit.
--
Eric
--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx]
--> On Behalf Of Andrew G. Malis
--> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:14 AM
--> To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
--> Cc: Avri Doria; Ole Jacobsen; ietf@xxxxxxxx
--> Subject: RE: Please make sure that you do not run your WLAN
--> in ad hoc mode
-->
--> Dan,
-->
--> You must have been on 802.11b. 802.11a was solid from
--> Tuesday morning through to the end of the week. I was
--> having problems on Monday with dueling access points but
--> that was fixed by Tuesday morning.
-->
--> Cheers,
--> Andy
-->
--> -------
-->
--> At 11/12/2005 06:45 +0200, Romascanu, Dan \(Dan\) wrote:
-->
--> >I know. I am attending both the IEEE 802 Plenary meetings
--> and the IETF
--> >meetings for many years. I can witness first hand that the
--> situation is
--> >much worse at the IETF meetings than at the IEEE ones.
--> Practically, the
--> >network is perfect at most IEEE meetings. True, I believe
--> that they are
--> >outsourcing the network deployment and its maintenance during the
--> >meeting.
--> >
--> >As I will be attending the IEEE 802 meeting next week (in
--> Vancouver,
--> >but at a different hotel) I will be able to report by the
--> end of the
--> >week how it was. Anyway, it hardly can be worse than at
--> the IETF meeting.
--> >During this whole IETF week I could almost never connect
--> during the
--> >meetings. I had to wait for the lunch break when everybody
--> was away, or
--> >to go to my room (at the 7th floor in the tower) to be
--> able to connect
--> >to the IETF wireless network.
--> >
--> >Regards,
--> >
--> >Dan
-->
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