FCC Saves World From Wi-Fi Congestion Nobody Was Worried About

That's what I always did when I lived in a rented house that needed two AP's to cover the entire house, Was much easier.

In my opinion they should only provide 1, 5, and 9 as channel options BUT the problem would be legacy 1-6-11 deployments. Channel 13 would be on Euro routers.

Regardless, 2,3,4,7,8,10, and 12 should just be removed. There's NEVER a reason to use those - ever.

I have 68 other WiFi networks on 2.4 Ghz. All I did on 2.4 Ghz was print and stream music on my 4th Gen iPod Touch. Even just streaming music was horrible. It will cause buffering. I had to keep switching from channel 6 then back to channel 3 back and forth because of interference.

I then bought a new iPod Touch and a new dual band router and I now have no problems streaming music on the 5 Ghz. My new 5th Gen iPod Touch is the only thing that I have that works on 5 Ghz. Even my Dell XPS laptop from September 2011 only has a crappy 2.4 Ghz wireless so I keep it plugged into Ethernet like anything else that has a Ethernet port is hardwired.

P.S. just to be clear on some reasons WHY this a horrible idea:

1. There only are 3 non-overlapping channels (1,5,9,13) and 13 is illegal in the US (thus 1, 6, 11 are usually used to get a bit more guard space for legacy 802.11b). If you made even ONE CHANNEL (say from 7-12) non commercial, you'd leave Americans with only TWO CHANNELS to use in large office buildings, schools, etc. That would be HORRIBLE. THREE IS BAD ENOUGH.

2. Since you'd have to prove non-commercial use, there'd probably be a license fee.

3. The law woud be blatantly ignored anyways.

You'd be surprised, they tend to show up when you least expect them (speaking of the EB {Enforcement Bureau}). If you put up a 5 gig on the wrong freq too close to one of the new TDWR radar sites it may not take long for them to show up.

The 2.4 GHz band is very crowded here in my condo complex. I can see about 20 APs, most of them are Uverse gateways that have wifi turned on by default (even if their wifi is never used).
There is only one other user on the 5GHz band.
When this new bandwidth becomes available, manufacturers will have to make new models of routers and adapters. This may take a long time. If you try to find a 802.11n "final" router it is still very difficult; everyone is still selling old 802.11 "draft" models.

yes u can roam around but still u will need to reconnect since each AP has its own mac...and ull be surprised why ur signal is so low....either way works ^_^

While sure not a fun RF environment (especially if they aren't nicely laid out 1-5-9-13 or 1-6-11), I bet 2.4GHz is workable. Look at something like Ruckus, their AP's will run standalone (controller isn't needed) and will handle a high noise environment far better. Cost is about $600.