Pick a Wi-Fi Channel

This chapter helps you tune your network for optimum performance. It starts by discussing the portion of the radio frequency spectrum that your access point uses and then shows how to determine the right channel to use in each frequency band.

Many modern gateways and range extenders automatically pick channels for you, but you may need to tap into this knowledge when your network isn’t performing as expected.

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