It's not enough to choose the right band for your device; you also need the right channel within that band. This is why people recommend channels 1, 6, and 11 on the 2.4GHz band. These are the only ...

Q: On an 802.11b access point with a total of 11 channels, why is it that only three are non-overlapping? What exactly does that mean? — Scott, Va. A: 802.11b defines a general channel numbering ...

Nothing is more important to the performance of your company’s Wi-Fi network than the channels used by your wireless access points (APs). You can blanket a building with the latest and greatest APs, ...

The diagnostic will look at the other stuff nearby and presumably feels like it is better to center on 2 instead of 1. That would imply to me that there might be something else on 1, but maybe it's at ...

I have two access points connecting back to two different wired network back-ends. One of them is using channel 1 for 2.4GHz, channel 161 for 5GHz. The other one is using Channel 6 for 2.4GHz and ...