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Testing in immediate proximity to the router on both 2.4 and 5ghz bands both wireless filtering enabled and disabled, no difference.
However, as expected, in the far corner room enabling wireless Mac filtering reduced noise from -90db to -98db periodically on 2.4ghz lifting MCS index and tx rates from 117 to 173, repeatedly too.
I did note my router shifted control numbers between tests which did influence rssi; I hard coded them to match to eliminate variables.
Notably, 5ghz saw no improvement in metrics in the corner room. But, I’m writing this from the corner room as we speak on 5ghz. It’s stable with Mac filtering on for whatever reason.
This is actually somewhat logical, I’m getting much less noise on 2.4 (but not stronger RSSI) as I should, and dollars to donuts, that wireless Mac filtering is intermittently stopping handshake/failed cryptograph / WPA2 auths from a distant untrusted client/s in my neighborhood. This is somewhat counterintuitive as I would’ve assumed 5ghz would’ve seen the noise reduction as that has been my complaint. It does explain why everything on my router has pep to its step with it on… that distant client/s are just getting dropped presumably on 2.4 via Mac filtering. Why 5ghz works better with 2.4 dropping “bad” authentication? Dunno, reduced CPU? But my CPU isn’t busy. It’s a mystery. But yes, less noise on 2.4 indicates less clients, or potential unwanted clients I should say.
Testing in immediate proximity to the router on both 2.4 and 5ghz bands both wireless filtering enabled and disabled, no difference.
However, as expected, in the far corner room enabling wireless Mac filtering reduced noise from -90db to -98db periodically on 2.4ghz lifting MCS index and tx rates from 117 to 173, repeatedly too.
I did note my router shifted control numbers between tests which did influence rssi; I hard coded them to match to eliminate variables.
Notably, 5ghz saw no improvement in metrics in the corner room. But, I’m writing this from the corner room as we speak on 5ghz. It’s stable with Mac filtering on for whatever reason.
This is actually somewhat logical, I’m getting much less noise on 2.4 (but not stronger RSSI) as I should, and dollars to donuts, that wireless Mac filtering is intermittently stopping handshake/failed cryptograph / WPA2 auths from a distant untrusted client/s in my neighborhood. This is somewhat counterintuitive as I would’ve assumed 5ghz would’ve seen the noise reduction as that has been my complaint. It does explain why everything on my router has pep to its step with it on… that distant client/s are just getting dropped presumably on 2.4 via Mac filtering. Why 5ghz works better with 2.4 dropping “bad” authentication? Dunno, reduced CPU? But my CPU isn’t busy. It’s a mystery. But yes, less noise on 2.4 indicates less clients, or potential unwanted clients I should say.
