[Cerowrt-devel] treating 2.4ghz as -legacy?

[Sebastian Moeller]

Hi Dave,

On Dec 16, 2013, at 20:46 , Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have long used "5" as an indicator that the 5ghz channel was better.
> This goes back to a long thread on nanog, like 4? 5? years ago, where
> the hope was to train users that "5" was better.
> 
> Well, it's turned out that 5 is frequently better, but not always, AND
> that clients tend to go for the shortest of the SSIDs available. So a
> thought would be to create another ad-hoc standard for deprecating 2.4
> ghz, and have the shorter SSID be the 5ghz one.
> 
> Ideas for the 2ghz channel:
> 
> CEROwrt-legacy
> CEROwrt2
> 
> I'm not huge on "legacy" because it's rather long but am stuck for
> standards, I'd like a default 2.4 ghz SSID that clearly indicates the
> real use to which 2.4ghz is suitable, like:
> CEROwrt-GET-OFF-MY-BABY-MONITOR-YOU-FREAK
> 
> ideas for another ssid naming standard slightly longer than a single
> digit that would make sense to mom?

	While being not really for mom, I went for name_2.4GHz
and name_5GHz. Pretty clear, and the her name is shorter :)

best
	Sebastian

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