Quote:
Originally Posted by Qtx
Don't particularly enjoy it though!
|
Baww. But what if I told you it came with the opportunity to turn the BT Homehub 5 into one of the cheapest and yet most powerful 802.11ac routers beating third party devices at three times the cost?
Quote:
|
Yeah, it's the non-router end which tends not to switch rather than the router end. Beam-forming may give better benefits and at least that is router end only so doesn't require anything from the connected equipment or any user interaction.
|
I don't know about other phones but in the Samsung Galaxy S series, there have been tremendous improvements on the 5Ghz front. Side by side, where an S2 may see a dual-band AP's 5Ghz network as 10-20dB weaker than the same router at 2.4, the S3 will see both about the same (and both about 5dB stronger than the S2) and the S4 will see the 5Ghz 5-10dB stronger - and hence prefer it automatically. Either they've improved their antenna's 5Ghz efficiency by a factor of a thousand, or they've done some clever driver calibration jigging to make 5Ghz appear far stronger than it actually is, and thus make it more likely to be used.
Quote:
|
Really? With most users not being technical I can only assume they read about it on a popular site but most tend to not want to play with things they don't really understand, especially techy stuff. Can see how that is a support nightmare though. The sooner everything auto switches the better.
|
Yeah... There was a bit of a hoo-hah about Samsung removing the options in a firmware update on the S2 and S3, and leaving it out altogether on the S4. The underlying Android API hooks are still there though, so people have written third-party (root) apps to do the same job
