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RTS/CTS in 802.11g network with no 802.11b clients When there is mixed mode 802.11 b and g then RTS, CTS do come in as protection mechanism. Are there RTS and CTS packets sent when the network only consists of 802.11g devices ? Also, if they are not sent, please let me know why they are not applicable. When only 802.11g devices are present, RTS/CTS frames may still be present, but they are not required. The original purpose of RTS/CTS was basically a way for 802.11g stations to tell 802.11b stations to be quiet. Since 802.11b stations can't understand the modulation and coding of 802.11g OFDM transmissions, the 802.11g stations have to say to 802.11b stations "please don't interrupt while I talk in a foreign language." The beauty of RTS/CTS is that these frames are very small and pose very low overhead to the network. So, even though they were designed to facilitate backward compatibility between 802.11b and 11g, they can be used in other ways as well

WHY YOU MIGHT BE PAYING DOUBLE FOR 802.11AC WAVE 2. In the Wi-Fi world, it’s generally safe to assume that newer means better, and therefore 802.11ac Wave 2 should be better than Wave 1 right? Well, it depends.  Wave 2 pushes the bandwidth barrier much higher than Wave 1, but only in a 3x3 or 4x4 Wave 2 access point, not in a 2x2 configuration. I’ll show you why in a minute.  2x2 Wave 2 access points are using the ‘Wave 2’ banner to pull a fast one on us, making us think we are getting faster speeds for a smaller budget, when really we are getting the same speed, for a higher price than Wave 1. That’s right, 2x2 Wave 2 offers little to no benefits over 2x2 Wave 1 access points, so I guess the ‘2’ just means 'pay twice as much'.  Let’s take a look under the hood of these 2x2 Wave 2 access points to discover why it makes no sense to a customer, only to the vendor.  First of all we need to understand the overall difference between Wave 1 and Wave 2 access points.  Wa