Have an ancient "b" device on your wireless network? It'll slow down your other 2.5GHz connections. G will drag down C nodes.Īmazing what happens when you look under the covers. This is by design so that other nodes are good neighbours. Notice that they are in B mode only? Sadly, I don't think those printers are even owned by us.Ī broadcasting B node will drag down the entire network regardless of the speed of the rest of the network. In the screenshot below (I removed the SSIDs) I circled 2 broadcasting nodes. You can see the various sessions,their channels, and the throughput of each session. Just about every consumer wireless access point I've seen will let you override the "auto-select channel" setting and select a good channel manually.įor Windows, I suggest the free version of Acrylic WiFi - It's a very solid product. You can get a very good idea of how many sessions are around you, which sessions are using which channels, and the best channel(s) for your Wireless Router to use. This is where a WiFi Scanner app can help.
While every consumer wireless access point claims that it "auto-selects the best channel", it rarely does a good job of this in the real world.
WiFi bands are comprised of discrete channels. Content provided by Peter K1PGV and Mike, VA3MW
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