...And the migration begins...

[acidrain]

So after a few months, i seem to have picked up on a new SSID:

SSID: Uni-BB-G05-MMM
Frequency: 5825
Radio Name: 000B6B853991
RouterOS: 2.9.50

Seems now that the migration from 2.4 to 5.8 has begun to take a leap forward. This is indeed sad news for me since i already notice a huge difference in signal

 

[aadil-old]

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[Tns]

So after a few months, i seem to have picked up on a new SSID:

SSID: Uni-BB-G05-MMM
Frequency: 5825
Radio Name: 000B6B853991
RouterOS: 2.9.50

Seems now that the migration from 2.4 to 5.8 has begun to take a leap forward. This is indeed sad news for me since i already notice a huge difference in signal

but surely this should be better? the signal should improve, unless they dumping 2.4 tottally?

 

[Kloon]

In CPT, everybody is starting to use 5.8 nowadays because the 2.4 spectrum is already so over utilized. We at CTWUG only operate at 5.8 due to all the noise on 2.4, and nowadays when we do scans we pick up dozens of ssids on 5.8.

 

[Ryder_JHB]

and I am sure I don't have to guess that 99% of those SSID's are Wisps!

 

[acidrain]

In CPT, everybody is starting to use 5.8 nowadays because the 2.4 spectrum is already so over utilized. We at CTWUG only operate at 5.8 due to all the noise on 2.4, and nowadays when we do scans we pick up dozens of ssids on 5.8.

Exactly why i moved over to 5.8. signal and throughput was so pathetic not to mention the instability caused by all that noise. But at that time of moving over... there was only one SSID running on 5.8 ( that i could pick up of course ) and it was the one im connecting to.

 

[Kloon]

and I am sure I don't have to guess that 99% of those SSID's are Wisps!

Yea thats correct

 

[acidrain]

Todays scan shows Amobia joining in on the fun aswell now.

 

[Ricard]

So after a few months, i seem to have picked up on a new SSID:

SSID: Uni-BB-G05-MMM
Frequency: 5825
Radio Name: 000B6B853991
RouterOS: 2.9.50

Seems now that the migration from 2.4 to 5.8 has begun to take a leap forward. This is indeed sad news for me since i already notice a huge difference in signal

why should the signal degrade.. 5.8ghz does not suffer from channel-overlapping as 2.4ghz does.

2.4ghz has 3 usefull channels... 5.8ghz has 20odd usefull ones.

 

[TheRoDent]

5.8 Ghz simply does not have the physical propagation capabilities that 2.4Ghz has.

It's physics. Immutable.

 

[acidrain]

...5.8ghz has 20odd usefull ones.

eh... wrt 5.8Ghz i only have a choice of 2 channels ( 5805 and 5825 ). 5Ghz i have 13 channels ( assuming each frequency option is a channel )

 

[Kloon]

The 5GHz bands have much greater spectrum available. In this band there are 12 non-overlapping channels, each with 20MHz of bandwidth. This means significantly better performance as compared to the 2.4GHz band. The entire 2.4GHz band is 80MHz wide, which only allows three non-overlapping channels.