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What happens when wifi channels overlap?

There are many pages on the web advising the use of wifi channels 1, 6 and 11 only, so that your wifi channels don't overlap. Obviously this makes sense when you only have your network do deal with, ...
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Freebsd change default Internet channel route

I have two Internet channel and Gateway on freebsd. When I switch channel with the command route change default chan2, the command netstat -nr shows changed default route. But traceroute shows that ...
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RHN Satellite / Spacewalk custom channels, best practice?

I'm currently setting up RHN Satellite, and all works well. I'm in the process of creating custom channels, since we have certain software which should be available for all nodes of satellite, e.g. ...
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Using 4 wifi channels rather than 3

I have a wifi deployment with about 60 access points, currently limited to channels 1,6, and 11. This is a college campus, and the residence halls can get quite noisy, from an rf perspective. We ...
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Increase network bandwidth between 2 servers

Is it possible to increase the network bandwidth between 2 servers on Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 ? For example : Use 2 Gigabit NICs on each computer to have 2 Gigabits/sec between 2 machines ? ...
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Invalid channel specified in wifi beacon frames

To moderators: I'm not sure if this is the right site to ask this kind of technical question, feel free to move this elsewhere. I'm debugging a problem where an ESP8266-based device fails to include ...
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wireless where to scan

I am using a wireless network scanner to analyze signal strength around my place and assign the best channel on my AP which is not overlapped with other APs. Where is the best place to scan; near the ...
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Do WiFi APs on same channel still interfere at a farther range (-70+)?

I am aware that the most common channels for the 2.4Ghz band are (1 ,6 ,11). They are non-overlapping. I also know that channel 6 is the default for most routers, if not set to auto. I am wondering ...
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