From the course: Wireless Networking Essential Training
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Configuring channels
From the course: Wireless Networking Essential Training
Configuring channels
- [Instructor] Here we're sitting at the dashboard of our Linksys wireless router that we set up in the previous video. In this video, let's see how we can manipulate channel selection. To do that, I want to go under Wi-Fi Settings. And notice that we have both the 2.4 and the 5 gigahertz band with the same SSID. Again, you may want to have the 2.4 gigahertz band have a different SSID if you have some devices that can only communicate using the 2.4 gigahertz band. That happens sometimes with internet of things devices. In fact, if you're setting a wireless router up for that purpose, we could entirely turn off the 5 gigahertz band. Or if we're going to have clients that we know are compatible with the 5 gigahertz band and we don't want to cause interference for the 2.4 gigahertz band, we could turn off the 2.4 gigahertz band. But let's take a look at channel selection. Typically, we just let the wireless device itself…
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