Here's a few articles on the topic: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,708876,00.asp
http://yves.maguer.free.fr/WiFi/nombre_de_cannaux_disjoints_4_en_france.pdf It's doable, it's been done, but there's a lot of adjacent channel interference, so you have to be able tolerate some errors and retransmits (which are not ideal for Vo-Fi). Of all the enterprise WLAN vendors, Aruba appears to be the most OK of the practice. Frank From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Urrea, Nick Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Using 4 channels rather then 3 for the 2.4ghz wifi We have a large study room at UC Hastings which accommodates up to 150 students. On average I see about 80-100 users using the wifi in the room. To load balance the wifi in the room I have setup 4 APs. Right now we use the 3 non-overlapping 2.4ghz channels, 1, 6, and 11. The 4 APs are line of sight with each. Do you think it would be a good idea to go to 4 channels instead 3 Ex: (1, 4, 8, 11) ---- Nicholas Urrea Information Technology UC Hastings College of the Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] x4718 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
