Wireless 2.4 channels

[getafix33]

Hi

I know best practise is NOT to set AP's to auto channel selection, but I see that Unifi when set to auto only ever selects channels 1, 6 or 11. Is it OK to then leave it at auto?

 

[SauRoNZA]

As long as your country is set correctly so it’s only 1-11 then you are all good.

You can enable WiFi AI then it will scan every interval you set and use the most available channels.

 

[powermzii]

As long as your country is set correctly so it’s only 1-11 then you are all good.

You can enable WiFi AI then it will scan every interval you set and use the most available channels.

Have you used Wifi AI before? Everyone seems to say don't use it - again each person's use case is different but interested to hear your experiences

 

[getafix33]

As long as your country is set correctly so it’s only 1-11 then you are all good.

You can enable WiFi AI then it will scan every interval you set and use the most available channels.

Thanks for the info.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Have you used Wifi AI before? Everyone seems to say don't use it - again each person's use case is different but interested to hear your experiences

I do use it at home and at work.

At work being a massive distributed setup I’ve noticed it likes to drop AP’s to 20hz, which it doesn’t do at home but this actually makes sense if you think about a densely populated network vs my home one.

So if you can accept that it will go wild and do it’s own thing try it. It does leave a lot of channel changes it makes but not the frequency but I’m pretty sure it AI doing that as well.

Ultimately it chases consistency not top speed. Which at some point we all need to accept as the more logical target in a corporate environment.

 

[SauRoNZA]

It's definitely a more active approach than just using "auto" and then you have no idea what it's actually doing.

Likely on auto it only channel scans when it reboots, which on the UniFi would be pretty much never unless there is load shedding.

OR I suspect Auto may only be relevant to UniFi access points comparing themselves and therefore it sets the channels the the common ones between different UniFi AP's so they don't overlap and it doesn't fight with itself.

 

[getafix33]

It's definitely a more active approach than just using "auto" and then you have no idea what it's actually doing.

Likely on auto it only channel scans when it reboots, which on the UniFi would be pretty much never unless there is load shedding.

OR I suspect Auto may only be relevant to UniFi access points comparing themselves and therefore it sets the channels the the common ones between different UniFi AP's so they don't overlap and it doesn't fight with itself.

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Very good point regarding interfering with other Unifi AP's