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IT Shops Coping With Overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi Band 165

alphadogg writes "Of the 470,000 Wi-Fi connections made on a recent day at Abilene Christian University, fully 94% used the 2.4GHz band, representing an extreme example of how today's surging number of Wi-Fi clients is crowding the band least able to accommodate them. At ACU, this is not considered a problem, at least not yet. In part, that's because of careful wireless LAN design and capacity planning. And partly because a goodly percentage of mobile devices that can run on the alternative 5GHz band, do so: on that same day, 47% of the school's laptops and desktops, and two-thirds of its iPads cruised on 5GHz, via either 802.11a or 802.11n. Yet relatively few of today's Wi-Fi clients support 5GHz."
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IT Shops Coping With Overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi Band

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  • by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24, 2011 @03:03PM (#37821892)

    Considering TFA is about an IT shop that is coping with the overloaded 2.4GHz band, in my honest opinion, your honest opinion is fucking stupid.

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