26 Feb
2013
26 Feb
'13
6:40 a.m.
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
N on 5Ghz takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the 5Ghz channel where A merely replicated G on 5Ghz for all practical purposes.
You have that backwards, actually, but the legacy support in 802.11g for 802.11b clients does represent a performance hit even in the absence of b-only clients, so claiming that a and g are equivalent is only true on paper. -r (802.11a user before 802.11g, still love the relatively unoccupied 5 ghz spectrum)