Re: Re(4): [67ATTENDEES] IETF 67 Network goes down at 12:00

"Andrew G. Malis" <amalis@gmail.com> Wed, 15 November 2006 13:08 UTC

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To: Simon Leinen <simon@switch.ch>
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Please keep 11a - it's been great for the last few meetings.  And 
thanks for the two SSIDs - using the same SSID was a problem when we 
first starting using 11a.

Thanks,
Andy

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At 11/15/2006 10:52 +0100, Simon Leinen wrote:
>Markus Stenberg writes:
> > I'm hoping the 11a goes away, if it leads to more b/g coverage
> > (unlikely, considering they're probably provided by the same access
> > points, but I live in hope).
>
>The problem is not so much that 11a and b/g are provided by the same
>access points.  The problem is more that the ~2.4GHz spectrum
>available for 11b/g is very limited compared to the ~5GHz spectrum for
>11a.  This makes it much harder for to come up with a good channel
>allocation plan for b/g than for a.
>
> > Why is that? I have a Japanese 11a/b/g both in my Thinkpad and
> > Panasonic laptops. Unfortunately, it seems that some moron's been in
> > charge when the frequency sets for 11a were chosen (or I'm a moron),
> > as I can't see the 11a networks in IETFs at all. I _suspect_ it is
> > our good friend region-coding that is acting up - apparently both of
> > my laptops subscribe to the ZZJ (Japan) frequency set according to
> > the Intel driver in Linux, and unfortunately I can't change that
> > while travelling.
>
>Shouldn't that be possible, e.g. by flashing the card with different
>firmware when you change continents? And as someone else said,
>regulations in Japan seem to have changed anyway, so maybe you can
>upgrade firmware to the newer Japanese channel set, or the common
>subset of that and the other regions.
>--
>Simon.


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