Interesting analogy. +1 On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Michuki Mwangi via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
In addition. There are good AP's out there. Question is implementation.
Most devices have 2.4 radios and often enough only the more fancier/expensive devices have both both.
The skill is understanding how 2.4Ghz behaves in room and what happens when you have very many other 2.4Ghz radios in the same room. So think about it this way. If you have someone standing on a table in the middle of the room full of 30 people. Then the person tries speak and everyone starts talking back what happens ?. The more people there are and they all want to be heard, they will raise their voices and this tends to make things worse - not better.
Now imagine in the same room, if you have 3 people strategically placed to speak in a measured voice/tone that covers just about the radius that seats 10 people.
You are more likely to have a better experience when speaking to 10 people and hearing them back compared to when one person speaks to 30 and hopes to hear all of them.
So having 3 cheap AP's well configured (low power, non-overlapping channels on 2.4) and strategically placed in the room can yield a much better performance in such an environment compared to having a single high end AP that can support over 70 simultaneous sessions.
But there is no harm in getting the high end AP's but also configure them as they should. We have far too much and often unnecessary noise in any given building/location in Nairobi on the 2.4Ghz range. I just wish folks paid more attention when configuring the APs and realize that high power is not equal to better performance or speed. It reminds me that the other day, I was at place that forced my laptop radio to automatically shutdown. Reason being that the facility had an indoor AP broadcasting using a 26 dBm antennae and may laptop OS did not like that at all.
HTH.
Regards,
Michuki.
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