[Rack] Future changes to wifi

[Ben Kochie]

This is a good idea.  We did the same thing at our office.  The internal 
company network is 5g only, and the "guest" network is on 2.4.  It also 
helped because we don't allow people to put their phones on the internal 
network.  This help keep the issues  between phones and laptops down.

-ben

On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Rubin Abdi wrote:

> I want to make another change to our SSID setup. Currently we have...
>
> SSID: Noisebridge
> Radio: 2.4 and 5 gHz
>
> SSID: Noisebridge 5g
> Radio: 5 gHz only
>
> I want to change this to...
>
> SSID: Noisebridge
> Radio: 5 gHz only
>
> SSID: Noisebridge Legacy
> Radio: 2.4 gHz only
>
> Why? I've come to the realization that for where we are in the Mission
> and with all the radio interference, 5 gHz is preferred, 2.4 gHz will
> only bring heartache. Also computers (mostly Apple hardware) and users
> (mostly everybody) are really bad at making the right choice in
> networks. "Noisebridge" looks less weird than "Noisebridge 5g". Most
> people still connect to the mixed radio network, and most of the times
> their laptop picks 2.4 gHz over 5 gHz.
>
> With this change in names, the default network people will pick is the
> better one and the one that isn't preferred very politely says "this is
> for old things." And if someone can't see the normal network, they'll
> see the Legacy network and connect to that instead.
>
> Unless I hear strong objections, I would like to make this change at the
> end of next week. Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
>
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