FAQ: What channel should I choose for my wireless network? Wireless Networking Forum. NetSpot for Mac OS and Windows. Wi-Fi channel scanner will help you find possible WiFi issues and fix them by choosing the right channel. How to Find the Best Wi-Fi Channel for Your Router. If you’re on the same Wi-Fi channel as a lot of. You could use a graphical app like Wifi Radar for.
I understand that 2.4GHz Wi-Fi channels overlap, and that the most popular non-overlapping set of channels in the US is 1, 6, and 11. Generally, my signal strength on channels 1, 6, and 11 are much stronger than my neighbors' on the same channel. However, these channels usually have 4 or 5 APs already using them. In this scenario, is it better to use 3, 4, 8, or 9? Or is it better to use the crowded channels 1, 6, and 11? As a secondary question, does it even matter that my signal strength is much higher than theirs? A lot of people mistake IEEE 802.11 signals for solid cars on a multi-lane highway.
They frown upon people driving over the lines, occupying more than one lane. However, Wifi signals are rather like colored plumes of smoke. Along the open lanes, the color plumes are allowed to intermingle. As long as I can still tell the color of my plume of smoke at the end of the road, all is fine.
The partial overlap of differently colored plumes is then like a gray mist of noise to my signal. This is the principle of spread spectrum communication. – Jul 6 '14 at 15:08. The result is that if you use an overlapping channel (anything other than 1,6,11), you get terrible performance and you make everybody else's performance worse. The problem is that any time an AP on the overlapping channel broadcasts, you get stepped on. And because the channels overlap rather than coincide, other network's transmissions are seen as noise, not signal, and don't trigger the bandwidth sharing built into the design.
Non-overlapping channels (1,6,11) work better than overlapping channels. With overlapping channels, you step on each other and can't do anything about it. With non-overlapping channels, you see each other and share the bandwidth. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Activation Crack. David - when that document was written that was probably good advice - you could build a network then and there would not be another wireless network in sight.
