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Originally Posted by Paxton
I have certainly seen the emphasis on channel 6 and that is confirmed by the WiGLE statistics. It would probably be relieved if home routers could automatically determine the best channel to use without people having to choose themselves.
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Ugh. There would have to be a lot of intelligence built in, or the things would go into a state where one change would trigger a ripple effect where channels were constantly changing.
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Originally Posted by Paxton
Doesn't your suggestion that the channels should be assigned to different types of users go against the principle of licence-exempt spectrum? Assigning the channels goes back to putting the spectrum in the hands of the the regulators.
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Protecting a licensed band for some industries (e.g. healthcare, or SCADA controls) might be a good thing.
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Originally Posted by Paxton
I have used a spectrum analyser in urban areas and it does, on the face of it, look very busy. The max hold view gets saturated very quickly. When you carefully look at the bursts, though, you see that there are plenty of time gaps.
The highest frame rate I have recorded so far in urban areas is just 650 frames per second, which is not very much at all.
There seems to be a gap between what people think is there and what you get when you try measuring it.
Paxton
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Again, it depends where you are, and what you are looking at. Sure, in some areas, you may have 25 people in one build using ch. 6 and no one is really moving a lot of traffic, so that it isn't congested based on the time bursts. However, add a couple of people downloading ISOs or <gag> using a P2P file sharing (mal)ware, and you can have a real mess.