Hi, On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Lin Ming <mlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a wireless router with 2 wireless cards: 2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz frequency. > > The performance for 2.4Ghz is much worse than 5.0Ghz. > > Does the frequency affect performance so much? There are a lot of factors: - Amounts of other networks on the same channel - Noise - Signal strength etc. It's quite possible that there are less networks on 5GHz channels where you are so there's less noise, stronger signal, and therefore better performance. Most routers are still only 2.4GHz. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
