Are your access points locked into using a single channel? Or are they allowed to hop around the spectrum? ....
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As to channel locking and whatnot, I'm letting the Airport Extreme's figure it out themselves. Supposedly they're
smart enough to deal with this on their own...
I have not been keeping up with the recent WiFi specs on this point, but my recollection from prior readings is that the WiFi specs do not include the ability for an access point to
change which WiFi channel it is using.
When the AP boots up or restarts, it can scan the air for detectable (to the AP) WiFi channels in use by others and then select a specific channel for itself that is hopefully going to suffer the least interference. Once the AP has made that selection and begun doing business on a given channel, the AP ceases checking for interference and cannot later change to another channel.
Are modern AP now able to dynamically monitor for channel interference and switch channels?
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