On Tue, 5 May 2020 02:57:39 -0500
"David C. Rankin"
On 05/04/2020 11:24 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
- control channel (Auto, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11) (set to 7 at this moment)
The wifi network scanner on my phone show the signal strengths and control channels in use by the AP in range. Again the application refers to those wifi APs as having 'control channels'. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer
Articles I read on the 'net, similarly refer to setting up APs and have graphics of the setup screens with the GUI control labelled, as is mine 'control channel'.
I'm by far no expert here, but I don't think "control channel" is the proper term. From my memory I recall them just being channels where the frequency was segmented which allowed multiple access points to co-exist in somewhat a more friendly manner. All the AP docs and setups I've seen discuss this normally operating in Auto mode but giving you manual control to select a distinct channel if needed. It has been a long while since I've stumbled though the docs (I think it was last with a Linksys wrt54g that I saw the description)
Lord knows how much from a labeling standpoint is lost-in-translation now days....
I'm no expert either, but I've never heard the phrase 'control channel' in connection with wi-fi. There is an oddity with wi-fi in that the spectrum/energy of a signal is spread over more than one channel, so although you can 'select' a single channel, you actually occupy bandwidth on both sides of that channel, so there are really only two or three channels that are sensibly usable at 2.4 GHz. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org