Yea, like Shoe said just to avoid intereference. 5ghz is a shorter wavelength which technically would provide more data rates. It's a very slight difference though. Different wave lengths propogate differently giving lower hertz longer travel. But I belive this frequency range is all line of sight. And will weaken strength through walls and even reflect on glass which is why reception would suck in downtown as skyscrapers would be fucking up line of site. Probably why cell tower are on the top of the sky line. Modems change these signals from analog to digital. Turning into 1's and 0's . It's all just for avoiding interferences.
The real trick to speed is getting low signal to noise ratios. Low bit error rates, data has to pass protocol. Error detection and correction will slow you down and this is all caused by bad bits, bad bits are caused from intereferences or low signal to noise ratios.
Just basically worry about how many bars you get and move your modem or laptop to get most bars or switch bands whiver gives most bars.
Last edited by Epsilon; 12-12-2009 at 07:33 AM.
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