* Lewis G Rosenthal wrote, On 11/29/2007 9:01 PM:

On 11/29/07 05:32 pm, Leon D. Zetekoff thus wrote :

* Lewis G Rosenthal wrote, On 11/29/2007 3:14 PM:

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Leon, your point about using subchannels is moot when discussing client connections to an AP. Between carrier grade AP's, yes, but I've never seen a client with the ability to use subchannels (and that's not part of the 802.11b or g specs, AFAIK).

let's rephrase that subchannels are not in consumer off-shelf equipment. We use APs and clients all the time with subchannels.
it does seem MS has some issues they need to address but for the most part noise in the 2.4 band is not going to go away but get worse so getting away from the consumer grade equipment will help the situation a little as well as give you more channels to work with.

How do you get away from consumer grade equipment when Intel 3945AGN adapters (et. seq.) *are* consumer grade? I agree that the interference isn't going away; I think the answer on the client side is attenuation, either by cleverly designed reflectors/deflectors, supplementary antennae, or by some type of discreet software filtering. That said, I'm *not* a radio guy, so perhaps someone with more HAM experience may want to chime in here.

has nothing to do with ham or not...it depends on the firmware running on those interfaces as well. The ubiquiti (and others) radio cards do support subchannels and the OS being used does as well. Noise is noise whether it is from a wideband signal over a narrower signal but when you do move to a subchannel, it is like putting a filter in place; not totally but pretty much close to it.