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They didn't really cover the important question of why modern wifi still uses 2.4GHz rather than the much wider 5GHz spectrum. Anyone living in a crowded apartment building owes it to themselves to get 5GHz routers so avoid interference with their neighbors' wifi. For some reason its getting harder to find 5GHz access points and most online stores don't let you search by frequency band.


5GHz opened up pretty recently. This along with high of cost of making a 5GHz radio and wider acceptance of 802.11ng is reason for Wifi still sticking to 2.4 ISM band.


A lot of higher end N routers are dual-band; they work on both the 2.4 GHz and 5 Ghz bands. It would be silly to have a router that only worked with 5 Ghz, since many laptops and almost all cell phones only work with 2.4 Ghz. Routers that work with 5 GHz should be relatively easy to find - just make sure that you search for "dual band" instead of 5 Ghz.


I use the 5Ghz band. Both my Time Capsule and Macbook support 11n over 5Ghz.


Look for 802.11a support, otherwise Apple AirPort.




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