Don't forget that I'm in Saudi Arabia, so maybe the "standards" here are different.
Most routers in my neighborhood are set to 1. It's weird. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:53 PM, maccrawj <[email protected]> wrote: > 1? Dunno what routers you work with but of Linksys, DLink, & Netgear's I've > seen they all default to center which is 6. Do a scan of any neighborhood > and that's where you'll find 99% of the WAPs. > > As I said, this is likely because 1 & 11 have major attenuation at their > respective lower & upper edge of spectrum because there is not enough room > to fit 20mhz centered on the extremes. Showing the actual width > characteristics is one of the nice things about how InSSIDer displays scans. > > On 5/16/2010 3:03 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: > >> Yes, the true non overlappable channels are 1 6 and 11, but then again, >> you can eke out some throughput by going to a less congested channel. >> >> The thing is that most routers default to 1. >> >> So I changed mine to 6 and got great benefits. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of maccrawj >> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:00 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [H] Yet another stumbler >> >> Good luck on that, on 2.4ghz there are only 1, 6, 11 that don't overlap >> and then >> factor in the 40mhz vs. 20mhz issue. 1& 11 are nearly useless since >> they don't >> provide enough spectrum for 20mhz much less 40mhz. >> >> After years of using Netstumbler to survey, I now use InSSIDer. >> >> On 5/15/2010 12:30 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: >> >>> To search the SSID's of other AP's and their Channels, in hope that >>> >> you can >> >>> set your AP's channel to something less congested and thereby getting >>> >> better >> >>> performance :) >>> >>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Anthony Q. >>> >> Martin<[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> What are these? >>>> >>>> >>>> On 5/15/2010 1:33 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: >>>> >>>> http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>>>> Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2875 - Release Date: >>>>> >>>> 05/15/10 >> >>> 02:26:00 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> -- Best Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad
