* Mikhail Ramendik
Well, this card appears to be 2.4 GHz only, which is natural for a 2008 card.
I am in a housing estate but not apartment block (a row of two-story houses). Wifi Analyzer on my phone can see 2-3 networks other than mine, at -90dbm level; my laptop sometimes notices them too. A network scan in yast only gives my network.
So I decided to risk increasing the channel setting on the AP from 20 to 20/40 MHz for the 2.4 GHz network. This has increased the speed, and while it is still somewhat slower than 5 GHz, the difference in actual broadband access is less than 10%. But perhaps this difference is just not worth purchasing a new network card. (I will later try to test without Internet the AP has a USB slot for a flash drive, if I can make it serve a big file we can check the actual speeds of WiFi alone)
The bigger question, however, is whether 40 MHz is an appropriate setting, or whether my neighbours might get impacted.
Won't set short intervals - in this house I do very much expect multipath to exist. The house is small but has an actual chimney going right through the middle.
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