Several Access Points - channel settings?

Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless
laptops in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc

We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school,
should they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should each
Access Point have a different channel?

Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a different
channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.

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"SteBar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless laptops
> in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc
>
> We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school, should
> they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should each Access
> Point have a different channel?

Al - thanks for the prompt reply, but what is the reasoning behind using
different channels on each Access Point?


> Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a different
> channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.
>
> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>
>
> "SteBar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless
>> laptops in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc
>>
>> We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school,
>> should they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should each
>> Access Point have a different channel?

that minimizes rf interferance between the access points where they overlap
coverage. and the clients will search all the frequencies for the access
points anyway.

"SteBar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Al - thanks for the prompt reply, but what is the reasoning behind using
> different channels on each Access Point?
>
>
>> Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a different
>> channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.
>>
>> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>>
>>
>> "SteBar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless
>>> laptops in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc
>>>
>>> We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school,
>>> should they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should each
>>> Access Point have a different channel?
>
>

Dave - thanks for that, but am I right in assuming that if a client
(Laptop PC) is "in between" several Access Points, it will search for
and connect to the Access Point with the strongest signal?


"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> that minimizes rf interferance between the access points where they
> overlap coverage. and the clients will search all the frequencies for
> the access points anyway.
>
> "SteBar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Al - thanks for the prompt reply, but what is the reasoning behind
>> using different channels on each Access Point?
>>
>>
>>> Use the same SSID system wide but run each access point on a
>>> different channel. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have the least overlap.
>>>
>>> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>>>
>>>
>>> "SteBar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Our School is going wireless, so that the pupils can use wireless
>>>> laptops in any classroom and connect to our ADSL router etc
>>>>
>>>> We aim to install several Wireless Access Points around the school,
>>>> should they all be set to the same channel e.g. Ch 6 - or should
>>>> each Access Point have a different channel?
>>
>>
>
>