hello! experience with 802.11x and extreme humidity?

[John Dalton]

> Surely it is easy enough to decrease the range
> without increasing the frequency ?

Yes, but this assumes everyone plays by the rules.

The important thing is at higher frequencies everybody's
range gets decreased, due to physical limitations.
This 'compulsory range reduction' is by way of
worse propagation and the increased difficuly
of building high power amplifiers at higher frequencies.

If the decrease in range is by voluntarily reducing power output
there will always be some who radiate at higher power,
reducing other's throughput.  Others fight back with
more power and 'tragedy of the commons' kicks in until
everyone has minimal throughput.

'Reduced range' is better expressed as 'reduced interference'.

John