sfx2000
Part of the Furniture
@tim - noticed in your reviews for dual-band routers, most of your test reports use the lower side of the available channels - specifically in the UNII-1 band.
I assume you're aware that many AP providers deliberately reduce power in the UNII-1 band by 3dB - this is to reduce interference with other users (think weather and military radars).
From a receiver perspective - not a big deal, most are fairly linear across the 5GHz band sensitivity wise, but dropping 3dB due to channel selections can skew the observed results significantly... 3dB is half-power
Check with the vendors... this would be something worth noting for folks planning on deploying 5Ghz on their networks.
Point of reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-NII
I assume you're aware that many AP providers deliberately reduce power in the UNII-1 band by 3dB - this is to reduce interference with other users (think weather and military radars).
From a receiver perspective - not a big deal, most are fairly linear across the 5GHz band sensitivity wise, but dropping 3dB due to channel selections can skew the observed results significantly... 3dB is half-power
Check with the vendors... this would be something worth noting for folks planning on deploying 5Ghz on their networks.
Point of reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-NII