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20/40 mhz coexistence default value
Hello, Will someone be kind enough to give me the default value for "20/40 mhz coexistence" ? It's in the advanced tab, advanced setup, wireless settings, in the "Wireless Advanced Settings (2.4GH...
- Should be enabled. See page 110.
"suffer the consequences of contention (congestion) and everyone actually moves much slower"
I made the point I'm not having congestion issues.
However the illustration in the link breaks down. The illustration leaves out how many lanes traffic is flowing on.
If 2.4ghz at 40mhz is stable, and mine is, there is no reason to force wireless clients to 20mhz and a slower connection. In fact it makes no sense to limit clients to 20mhz in mine, and I bet others too, settings. Get traffic on all available lanes makes the most sense.
I don't live in a coffee house, near one, etc. In an apartment complex? Yes, probably good idea to limit to 20mhz.
In a typical residential community in homes? Using 40mhz at the very least needs to be tested. I'd bet more often than not in a residential community it is going to work just fine. Always? Of course not. But often enough the advice to set co-existence to enabled in general is probably unfounded.
Nice tweak in DD-WRT and Tomato variants is the ability to manually select 20/40, 20 or 40 mhz. Makes more sense as an configuration option.
My two cents.....
;)
I made the point I'm not having congestion issues.
However the illustration in the link breaks down. The illustration leaves out how many lanes traffic is flowing on.
If 2.4ghz at 40mhz is stable, and mine is, there is no reason to force wireless clients to 20mhz and a slower connection. In fact it makes no sense to limit clients to 20mhz in mine, and I bet others too, settings. Get traffic on all available lanes makes the most sense.
I don't live in a coffee house, near one, etc. In an apartment complex? Yes, probably good idea to limit to 20mhz.
In a typical residential community in homes? Using 40mhz at the very least needs to be tested. I'd bet more often than not in a residential community it is going to work just fine. Always? Of course not. But often enough the advice to set co-existence to enabled in general is probably unfounded.
Nice tweak in DD-WRT and Tomato variants is the ability to manually select 20/40, 20 or 40 mhz. Makes more sense as an configuration option.
My two cents.....
;)