Initial automatic channel selection implementation

[Pavel Roskin]

On 05/24/2011 02:07 PM, Eduard GV wrote:
>
>> Speaking of channels, I think only some channels should be eligible for
>> automatic selection (that would be 1, 6 and 11 in the 2.4 GHz range).
>
> I disagree. Sometimes it is better to have adjacent channel
> interference (from partially overlapping channels) than co-channel
> interference. I could provide some references if you're interested.

My point is that we should play safe, at least when the algorithm is 
simple.  We should try to avoid the situation when our AP chooses a 
channel with no other APs but with a lot of cross-channel interference 
(either at the time of the scanning or later).

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin