For one thing, older Wi-Fi devices are forced to share a much more limited number of channels in and around the 2. Part of the reason that 2. Adrian McCaskill, a wireless architect for World Wide Technology , says that the effect of frequency overcrowding is to limit the amount of air time individual devices have to send and receive data.
And if you have to support even one legacy 2. It's definitely a balancing act. Sign up for our Newsletter and be the first to know about new products, promotions and all things D-Link. Why the 2. Graeme has a borderline obsessive passion for all things IT-related. Stay in touch. WiFi frequency bands are frequency ranges within the wireless spectrum that are designated to carry WiFi: 2. This article by TechTarget dives a bit deeper regarding what frequency bands are.
The key takeaway here is that WiFi frequency bands are unlicensed i. This is what makes them more susceptible to interference, and which is why your home network and connected devices may experience poor signal. It depends. As you can see above, there are pros and cons to using either of the WiFi frequency bands.
Where you get faster speeds with one, you get stronger coverage with the other; and, where you get less co-channel interference with one, you get device compatibility with the other.
A fun fact: At Minim , we are constantly monitoring device attributes and behaviors, which enable us to provide network recommendations like, "This device might be a good candidate to move to 5 GHz WiFi in order to improve its performance. Therefore, to choose the best WiFi frequency band for your wireless network, consider whether you need strong coverage throughout your home i. If this is the case, you will want to use the 2.
If this isn't the case, the 5 GHz band will be better to use as it will provide much faster WiFi speeds. You could also consider adding a WiFi booster to help extend your WiFi signal if you find it to be weak. You live your life at 2. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others.
The answer is in your kitchen. Before we charge too far ahead here, let's run over the basics. Your house or apartment, or the coffee shop you're sitting in now, is saturated with radio waves. Inconceivable numbers of them, in fact, vibrating forth from radio stations, TV stations, cellular towers, and the universe itself, into the space you inhabit. You're being bombarded , constantly, with electromagnetic waves of all kind of frequencies, many of which have been encoded with specific information, whether it be a voice, a tone, or digital data.
Hell, maybe even these very words. On top of that, you're surrounded by waves of your own creation. Inside your home are a dozen tiny little radio stations: your router, your cordless phone, your garage door opener. Anything you own that's wireless, more or less.
Friggin' radio waves: they're everywhere. Really, it's odd that your cordless phone even has that 2. To your average, not-so-technically-inclined shopper, it's a number that means A nothing, or B something, but the wrong thing.
That's faster than my computer! What that number actually signifies is broadcast frequency, or the frequency of the waves that the phone's base station sends to its handset.
That's it. In fact, the hertz itself just just a unit for frequency in any context: it's the number of times that something happens over the course of a second. In wireless communications, it refers to wave oscillation. In computers, it refers to processor clock rates.
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