This internal "isolation" will probably differ by brand and model. I bet Cisco has more potential at 4 channels vs. consumer brands.
By all means give it a try. It would be especially useful to deply a 4 channel system, load it up, and use analyzers to check the spectrum.
Mike
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 3:40pm, Jack Unger wrote:
Hey Michael,
What a good chance to get some real-world input!
Maybe you could monitor and log the retransmit percentages over
time of your co-located APs on channels 1 and 4 and advise
us if the retransmit percentages go up as the simultaneous traffic loading
on the two APs go up? Channels 1 and 4 (under heavy traffic
conditions) will be colliding with each other. On the other hand,
if your traffic levels remain low-to-moderate, it may work just fine.
jack
Michael Mee wrote:
> because of some consulting firms technical influence,
Afaik, the idea of using 4 channels stems from an original whitepaper found
here:
http://www.cirond.com/White_Papers/FourPoint.pdf
and discussed here:
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,1583,a=33684,00.asp
Seemed reasonable when I read it, but I haven't ANY experience with trying
it.
Fwiw, we recently added a node to our Golden Hill network and chose channel
4 because we were already using channels 1 and 11 nearby and every linksys
on the planet seems to sit on channel 6.
cheers, michael
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