On 21/08/12 15:15, Trent W. Buck wrote:
I don't think anyone excplicitly mentioned but AIUI you should check what other channels people are operating on, and pick one that no one else is using. Also there is an overlap of one channel to either side of the chosen channel, so that if e.g. someone is using channel "5", then you should not pick 8, so that their {4,5,6} and your {7,8,9} don't overlap. When I was doing this in the office, $coworker had a little graphical doodad for this on their android (or maemo?) phone.
It's not just one channel to either side! Each wifi "channel" takes up five channels of space, two to either side. ie. channel 6 will also consume 4,5,7,8. See: http://www.tech-juice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2.4_GHz_Wi-Fi_channels_... As mentioned earlier in this thread, there are only three possible positions that don't interfere with each other- 1, 6, 11. An unfortunately if anyone is using the 300 mbit N stuff, that takes up two thirds of the band! I have one of the graphical wifi monitoring apps and have indeed used it to try and position mine away from the others.. However since both other networks are 40MHz ones, that consumes the entire band :)