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Why?

• ohazi 13y ago
  One example... I have a Motorola SBG6580 that I use as both my cable modem and wireless router [0]. Although it claims to support dual band 802.11n, it really only supports one or the other, not both simultaneously. This means that if I have any wireless device in the house that doesn't support 802.11n, and specifically the 5 GHz band, then I'm forced to tell my router to fall back to 2.4 GHz unless I want to buy additional hardware. [0] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=25-122-014 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=25-122-014
• steve-howard 13y ago
  The 2.4GHz spectrum is far more crowded, and in a dense urban environment it can be the difference between a solid connection and one that constantly drops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_interference_at_2.4_GHz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_interference_a...