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[Jamon Camisso]

On 05/25/2010 12:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I remember at the linux symposium last year the wifi had both bands and
> used one SSID for both bands on the whole network.  There was no way
> to get it to connect to the 5ghz band.  The 2.4ghz band was flacky and
> very busy, so the 5ghz band would have been much nicer to use, but there
> simple was no way to convince linux to connect to the 5ghz band instead.
> Extremely annoying.  Sure network-manager and such should perhaps be
> made better to allow a way to force the specific connection to use rather
> than just using the SSID, but so far that doesn't seem to have happened.
> Until clients unversilally have a good way to choose, using the same
> SSID for both bands essentially just throws away the 5ghz band because
> no one will ever be able to connect to it because it almost always has
> a lower apparenty signal strength

If you use iwconfig you can set the channel, e.g. "iwconfig wlan0
channel 52"

Try that before setting the essid with network-manager.

Jamon
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