I think if you look at the archives you will find some discussion of it. It's pretty simple really, in order not to interfere at all with another Wi-Fi user, space the nodes 5 channels apart. So use channel 1,6,11 in the US. If you get more people than that try to keep them as separated as possible, so use 1,4,8,11 say. But this isn't really an issue as far as I can tell, in most places you'll pick up zero, one, or two AP's nearby. Usually all sitting on the default channel 6, just use 1 or 11, instead.
Even if you are unfortunate enough to share the same channel with your neighboor, and they are only using 1-2 mbits/s of bandwidth you probably won't even notice. Fire up netstumbler/kismet/etc before settling on a channel, or just make it 1 or 11 if you can't get one of those programs to work with your client radio. Netstumbler won't find "hidden" AP's so you might want to run Kismet for a 24hrs to be sure no one is on the channel you want. This can get downright complicated if the area is really busy, and you have competing interests, etc. But it's more of a geekthink problem at the moment. -- Daniel On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Bon sy wrote: ]I just talked to another NYCWireless member over the phone and came across ]the topic about wireless signal interference. Has this been ever discussed ]previously in the meeting? Have anyone tried to check under what ]condition(s) wireless signal can actually interfere each other while ]staying within the limit of FCC (24 dbi in the U.S.?)? ] ]If this has not been explored, would this be a good topic to go through ]in some meeting? ] ]Bon ] ] ] ]-- ]NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ ]Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ ]Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ ] -- <<You cant eat before a operashun. Not even cheese.>> -- Charlie Gordon -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
