On 21/08/12 12:50, Kevin wrote:
Your limit is simply that the RT-N15 is a 2.4GHz only radio
The 300Mb/s advertised is one of those wonderful if only no one else used it and you had 5 more channels with no overlap to bond together. this will never be seen on 2.4GHz. 2.4GHz has 3 non overlapping channels and if 802.11N with channel bonding is used 1.
I realise there isn't much spectrum available on 2.4 GHz, but scanning in my home only shows a couple of other visible networks, and they're both at around -85 to -90 db, vs my network at -35ish. I hope the significantly more powerful local signal will be rendering the other networks irrelevant for interference. Does it not work that way?
The airport on the other hand is an ABGN simultaneous Dual band radio that can bond several 5GHz channels together (less cross talk on these channels (and much less pollution))
to be honest it's kinda amazing that you get 70Mb/s on 2.4GHz :)
I run a cisco ap and abgn card in a separate AP and see sustained 250Mb/s link speed over that
Ah well, maybe I can improve things by simply throwing money at the problem then. Can you recommend a 5 Ghz AP with reasonable price/performance? (I don't have any issues with simply adding a PCI card to the linux server, but chipset support for AP mode seems rather hit-and-miss) thanks, Toby