Wireless channels in an ESS
luke_bibby
Member Posts: 162
in CCNA & CCENT
Hi all,
If you were setting up a large ESS which required several APs scattered around, how would you deal with assigning wireless channels?
From my understanding using some CCNA books, 802.11g has 11 overlapping channels and 3 non-overlapping channels. For all APs in the same ESS, they should be assigned the same SSID but different non-overlapping channels.
So my question is, what if you had more than three APs in an 802.11g network?
Cheers,
Luke
If you were setting up a large ESS which required several APs scattered around, how would you deal with assigning wireless channels?
From my understanding using some CCNA books, 802.11g has 11 overlapping channels and 3 non-overlapping channels. For all APs in the same ESS, they should be assigned the same SSID but different non-overlapping channels.
So my question is, what if you had more than three APs in an 802.11g network?
Cheers,
Luke
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kalebksp
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You would arrange them so that APs using the same channel would not be near each other. As long as the signals are not overlapping there is no problem. -
JavonR
Member Posts: 245
Real world best practice is to have signals overlap by 25% if you are deploying an ESS (this prevents dead spots). All you gotta do is make sure no channel overlaps with itself. IE: an access point broadcasting on channel 1 can overlap with another AP on channel 6, but it cannot overlap with another AP on channel 1. You may need to get a little creative
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JavonR
Member Posts: 245
I'm really bored at work so here is a general idea:
(please excuse the mis-alignment)
