Channel Planning [best practices]
channel-planning-best-practices-for-better-wi-fi/ Channel Planning Best Practices for Better Wi-Fi 18.4.2019 Guest Blogger: Tim O'Brien, Sr. Network Engineer Facebook witter LinkedIn Email Among the many tasks associated with properly designing and deploying a wireless network, one of the most important is developing a channel plan. A well-developed channel scheme will assist with squeezing every bit of precious airtime, which is one of the foundations of high performing WLANs. Whether you are using a static channel plan or a vendor’s dynamic channel assessment/assignment algorithm (pretty much all of them offer some version of this functionality), there are a few things to consider besides just picking channels. One of the most important is deciding on the proper channel width to use. Before we go too much further, let’s go over a few of the basics. The IEEE 802.11 standard defines operation for wireless networks in both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency range