FCC to Free New Chunk of Unlicensed Wi-Fi Spectrum > 5 Ghz Doesn't Seem to Need More Channels :)?

reply to Darknessfall

Re: 5 Ghz Doesn't Seem to Need More Channels :)?

The AT&T U-Verse gateways don't look around to see how congested the bands are and instead default. You have to manually change the channel. Luckily for me, none of my neighbours seem to have this figured this out, leaving me the opportunity to set my APs on different channels with less interference.

Both of my gateways that I received from AT&T had "Auto" for channel as the default.(3800/3801)

reply to BF69
I have traditionally seen channel 6 as the most, and 1 as the best. And then there's a few idiots on like 4 and 7, making only 2 usable (although one time in a dorm with horrendous interference, I found something like 3 or 4 to be the only thing that was remotely usable, as it partially fit in between 1 and 6).

reply to AggieDan
I live in an apartment by my college, all of my neighbors except for 1 are on channel 11. I have no complaints though, as it leaves me 1 free non-overlapping channel, and 1 lightly used channel.

reply to BiggA
I hate this. I'm forced to use channel 9 because 1, 6, and 11 are completely saturated. One neighbour runs two access points on two separate channels with 40MHz bandwidth and another uses channel 4. My LAN speeds over Wireless N rarely go past 20mbps on most channels. I get 30mbps on channel 9.

Another AP popped up last week on channel 7. I think 802.11ac will be my saving grace. I keep putting more devices on my wired network every week.

reply to BF69

reply to ssavoy
You can also use dual-band N900, which works great.