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Wireless Client Channel Polling

The router chooses a channel, based not only on its own RF environment, but that of its clients,
 
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so you're not sitting in the backyard 100 feet away from your router battling for airtime with 2 other routers that are 50 feet away on the same channel.
FlyingToaster, Jun 09 2014

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       Perhaps you might be interested in purchasing some BorgCo wireless-router seeking explosive mini-quadracopters ?
8th of 7, Jun 09 2014
  

       That would certainly be more convenient than having to walk back to the house and find out if anybody's on the phone or in the middle of downloading a movie or something before manually changing channels. However, I think a small directed EMP device would suffice.
FlyingToaster, Jun 10 2014
  

       Change to 802.11a ... lots of channels, not many users.
8th of 7, Jun 10 2014
  
      
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