I have two questions for the wireless on a mikrotik.
How can I tell if the client is connected on a B or G signal?
Currently when someone that has a B only card connects to a B/G AP it brings down the preformance of the AP to B speeds for everyone even the G clinets. Is there anyway around this so a G client will still get G speeds even when a B client is connected as well?
electravis,
unfotunately when a b client is detected on the same channel as you g AP is using the AP will go in to ‘b prtotect mode’. There is no way round this as it is in the specification of 802.11g.
There is a good reference to what this is an how it works in Mathew Gast’s boot “802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide” there’s a couple pages dedicated to b protect mode.
Regards
Tom
That is what I was affarid of. Is there anyway to tell how a client is connecting on the mikrotik ap either B or G?
Sorry I can’t help you with that as we use Juniper / Trapeze Enterprise WiFi and don’t use the WiFI cards that fit in RouterBoards
Short of sniffing the client’s probe requests, you cannot definitely tell what modes are supported.
An easy and relatively reliable way of finding out is to look at the signal strengths tab for the user in the connections window, then see if there are any 11g rates listed. It you only see 1,2,6,11 and signal strengths are good, you can be pretty sure it is a b-only client