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Configuring channels

Configuring channels

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Configuring channels

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- [Instructor] Now that we have our unified wireless networks set up and we have five access points total, we want to make sure that those access points are not interfering with one another's radio signals and the great news is UniFi is going to try to do that on its own. They can automatically select some radio frequencies to use to make sure we minimize interference. Well, let me show you how we could go in and manually set that up. If we wanted to. Am going to just do one access point. Let's go into your kitchen and under kitchen we could set the channel width to 20 megahertz or 40 megahertz. Remember when we discussed the different channel widths. If we want to really have three non-overlapping channels using the 2.4 gigahertz range, we probably need to keep the channel width to the default of 20 megahertz. Otherwise, we're not going to have those three non-overlapping channels of one, six and 11. And what I've…

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