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> It's usually best to enable every mode offered by your router, rather then a subset of those modes. All devices, including older devices, can then connect usi
by cmeacham98 4y ago
> It's usually best to enable every mode offered by your router, rather then a subset of those modes. All devices, including older devices, can then connect using the fastest radio mode they support. This also helps reduce interference from nearby legacy networks and devices.
Is this really the best advice? My (limited) understanding is that if a device connects with an older standard everyone gets slowed down by this. My router has a setting it calls "Airtime Fairness" that purports to combat this.
- zekica 4y agoAirtime fairness helps a lot but if a 11b device connects, you automatically lose 1/3 of the throughput even when that device is not active. 11g can also slow down others but only a couple percent. Also, if you disable 11b rates you can have more SSID beacons (more networks) in parallel as the beacon is then transmitted at 6Mbps PSK instead of 1Mbps DSSS.