We have both Meru and Cisco AP's. For Meru we put each controller on either channel 1 or 11, because it seems most SOHO routers choose channel 6. In high density locations (auditoriums) we will put AP's on different channels to increase density.
For the Cisco AP's we enable Radio Resource Manager (RRM) let it pick the channel and power settings and then turn it off. We had issues with AP's restarting with RRM enabled all the time (We also disabled DFS for the same reason). However, we are still running old versions of code because we have been migrating to Meru. -Neil -- Neil Johnson Network Engineer The University of Iowa Work: 319 384-0938 Mobile: 319 540-2081 Fax: 319 335-2951 http://www.uiowa.edu -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Jr., D. Michael Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:52 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Channel Selection on APs In the past, we have always setup wireless access points to use channels 3, 6, and 11, since these channels are the non-overlapping channels. We have tried to be careful in spacing out APs and picking one of these three channels where it seems appropriate to prevent interference from one another. A question was posed by someone in my staff about using the "least congested channel" setting instead of going through all the trouble of determining and setting the channel. So, the questions are... 1. What are you other institutions doing about channel selection on your Access Points? 2. If you are using 3, 6, and 11, what is your strategy for use and what problems and/or successes have you seen? 3. If you are not using 3, 6, and 11, why not? What are you doing? And what problems and/or successes have you seen? Any input is appreciated. Thanks, D. Michael Martin, Jr. Network Administrator University of Montevallo ********** 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/.
