Generally putting AP's on the same channel regardless of what network they happen to be connected to is not a good idea. A common practice it to break them up into overlapping cells on different channels. This will increase the through put for each user and the number of users able to use the system at a given data rate. The only draw back to this is that I've seen cards not want to switch to a stronger channel. For example if you roam into an area where channel 11 is stronger but you're on channel 1 it may just drop to a slower data rate on channel 1 rather than switching to channel 11.
I personally like to put the AP's channel as far away as possible from the adjacent AP's channel. In other words rather than having 1 AP on channel 1 and the other on 6 I would rather the second be on 11 to minimize any bleed over into each other. Dan. On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:39:02PM -0400, bryan mcdade wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question, For some reason I had thought that if you are putting > multiple AP's on the same network in the same building (providing seamless > coverage) that the AP's should all be on the same channel. I was told by > someone one else that they are suppose to be on different channels. > > Anyone able to clear this up?? The situation is a fully wired building and > we are covering the 3rd thru the 8th floor with 2 ap's per floor, on the > 3rd, 5ths and 8th (really these are the only ones we really want to cover > but it will hit floors both above and below). To me, if I'm going to put > the ap's on different channels then it would be create them in sets per > floor, ex. floor 3 would be on channel 1, floor 5 - channel 6, floor 8 - > channel 11. > > Doesn't exessive channel usage create additional noise? > > thanks > > -b > -- > Reality.sys corrupted. Reboot universe? (Y/n) > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
