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Wi-Fi Channel Selection
So what is the best channel to select on my wireless access point? A channel with weak signals but much more Wi-Fi hotspots on it? Or a channel that has much less Wi-Fi hotspots on it but has 1 or 2 Wi-Fi hotspots with strong signals on it? Will 1 or 2 stronger signals interfere much more with my Wi-Fi than a channel with weak signals but much more users on it?
Interestingly, when I set my wireless access point to auto Wi-Fi channel selection, it ends up selecting channel 1 which is the channel with the least amount of WiFi hotspots but 1 or 2 strong signals. It would seem, then, that the wireless access point’s algorithm is more concerned about channel congestion than a strong signal interference.