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Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless
laptops in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc

We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school,
should they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should each
Access Point have a different channel?

Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a different
channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.

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"SteBar" <> wrote in message
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> Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless laptops
> in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc
>
> We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school, should
> they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should each Access
> Point have a different channel?

Al - thanks for the prompt reply, but what is the reasoning behind using
different channels on each Access Point?


> Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a different
> channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.
>
> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>
>
> "SteBar" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless
>> laptops in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc
>>
>> We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school,
>> should they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should each
>> Access Point have a different channel?

that minimizes rf interferance between the access points where they overlap
coverage. and the clients will search all the frequencies for the access
points anyway.

"SteBar" <> wrote in message
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> Al - thanks for the prompt reply, but what is the reasoning behind using
> different channels on each Access Point?
>
>
>> Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a different
>> channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.
>>
>> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>>
>>
>> "SteBar" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>> Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless
>>> laptops in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc
>>>
>>> We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school,
>>> should they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should each
>>> Access Point have a different channel?
>
>

Dave - thanks for that, but am I right in assuming that if a client
(Laptop PC) is "in between" several Access Points, it will search for
and connect to the Access Point with the strongest signal?


"Dave" <> wrote in message
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> that minimizes rf interferance between the access points where they
> overlap coverage. and the clients will search all the frequencies for
> the access points anyway.
>
> "SteBar" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Al - thanks for the prompt reply, but what is the reasoning behind
>> using different channels on each Access Point?
>>
>>
>>> Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a
>>> different channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.
>>>
>>> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>>>
>>>
>>> "SteBar" <> wrote in message
>>> news:%...
>>>> Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless
>>>> laptops in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc
>>>>
>>>> We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school,
>>>> should they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should
>>>> each Access Point have a different channel?
>>
>>
>
>

> Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a different
> channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.

Hi Al,

From what I hear, Windows Zero Configuration has mucho trouble when
presented with multiple points with the same SSID. Wouldn't it be better to
use different SSIDS? Just curious.

-Frank