For many years I was routinely using nv2 in my layer 2 (bridge/station-bridge) point-to-point links. I assumed that given its proprietary nature, it would offer enhanced thruput, and it allowed me to avoid exposing multiple SSIDs in public that were useless to end-users.
Some time ago, a consultant pointed out to me that my links ran a lot faster if I set them to 802.11. I was amazed to see sometimes 3x or 4x the performance I had been getting with nv2. So I put up with the visible SSIDs because it wasn't worth taking the hit in speed just to hide them. (I tried using "Hide SSID" on the point-to-point links, but discovered that the station-bridge side wasn't able to just pick up and run with it, at least without some sort of configuration change, and I never spent the time to play around to see if I could make it work.)
Anyway, I don't understand why nv2 was so much slower than 802.11 for me. I tried optimizing nv2 by shrinking the number of stations to minimum, shrinking the radius as small as it absolutely needed to be, and increasing the time slices, but I couldn't regain a fraction of the bandwidth I gained just by going to 802.11.
Are there other ways to optimize nv2 to provide at least as good if not better bandwidth than 802.11 on a point-to-point link?