G not N. Rather, if you have G only (or b for that matter) it causes the old long and slow Legacy on air frame format to trigger. I wrote N meant G.
-Joel On May 24, 2016 10:04 PM, "Joel Wirāmu Pauling" <aener...@aenertia.net> wrote: > N DOES NOT HELP at hotels. N over 2.4ghz forces ALL stations on that > broadcast bandwidth (yes even those not participating) to downgrade to > Legacy mode ( this behaviour is stupid, but that's what we get for > backwards compatibility of mac80211 that should hace been abandonded after > G for a complete redesign ). And there is always some device in hotels that > ensures you will almost never get anything useable out on 2.4ghz channels. > > 5ghz (a and ac or a+n) ammeloriates this, and because of the narroweer and > more abundant bands and channel options. > > The chances are however likely you're get shapped to hell by their captive > portal before either of these issues. That class of hotel in the states you > will be lucky with 3 mbit per device, be happy with 10 or 15 for the > premium paid step option. > > As others have said it is time to replace your G device (not least because > you are a culprit of said above behaviour ;-) ... you can get 3x3 dual band > dual proc ath9k+ath10k routers that are openwrt-able for 50-70$ (i liked > the tplink ac1750 v2 As a budget buy, but i hear the v3's require using > lftp mode to flash ). > > Look on openwrt.org for suggestions. > > Bridge mode is a BS proprietary method ONLY implemented on bcm2xxx chips. > You can achieve what you want with relayd (Bridges l2 broadcast domain of > ANY two networks regardless) on ANY router running openwrt. > > -Joel > On May 24, 2016 9:13 PM, "Duncan" <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Mark Knecht posted on Tue, 24 May 2016 15:11:20 -0700 as excerpted: >> >> > Anyway, I guess if it was me I'd use the one you have short term while >> > at the hotel and then look at my house system when I landed someplace >> > permanent and try to go as fast as possible then. >> >> Bridge mode. Thanks. >> >> And sticking with the old router is a reasonable suggestion. I'm just >> not sure it's actually going to be practical in the shared hotel >> environment. But with G mode now quite outdated, provided the hotel >> still offers that and I'd guess they do still offer at least G (tho maybe >> not A/B), it /might/ mean I'm about the only one on it and >> /could/ mean I even get better speeds than I would on the N and AC modes >> if they're clogged. >> >> I'll have to call and confirm they offer G mode... >> >> Worst case, I don't have Internet for three months and watch TV and/or >> get a lot of books read. >> >> > Good luck with the move. Moving is tough. Stay cool in this heat. >> >> Yeah. The two good points are (1) that the city is actually paying >> commercial movers for the move, which I effectively signed off on today, >> so worst-case, I don't do anything and let them do it all, but end up >> storing a bunch of stuff I'd probably get rid of if I did it myself, and >> not having the stuff I'd keep as sorted, but it does kind of lower the >> stress as one way or another it'll get done, and (2) while it's >> unpleasantly forcing me out of my familiar shell in the near term, the >> change should be healthy for me long term. >> >> As for the heat, I've not felt it much yet this year. Given that it's >> happening at the very early tip of June, I hope/expect it won't be too >> bad. I'm a bit worried about the move out of the temp housing at the end >> of August, however. Except if I get my butt in gear and have things >> sorted and a lot thrown out at this end on the first, then I'll have less >> to deal with on the other end and it'll be already sorted. >> >> -- >> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. >> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- >> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman >> >> >>
