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I was noodling around with inSSIDer to see if my change to channel 11 on the 2.4Ghz band had moved me away from the stack of ssid that I had been seeing on auto. I had reset my channel manually to 11. I saw all of the ssid that I had seen before.
I saw that three of them from the same neighbor were using channel "6+2". InSSIDer did, in fact, show that all three were spread across channels 1 through 8. Another thing, all three of the 6+2 MAC addresses differed only in the last digit and were sequential.
They also had one ssid in the 5Ghz band and its ssid corresponded to one of those on 2.4.
Everyone else I saw was spread across channels 1 - 8 with some even on 4. The only one on 11 with me is a very weak, sporadic signal.
I just really started wireless because my granddaughters have two laptops here and my wife and I finally moved up from flip-phones. I've been using hardwired networks since 1981. I'm pleading ignorance on wireless here about the 6+2 channel thing and the sequential ssid addresses.
Any help would be appreciated, I really don't want to knock on their door and ask (a last resort).
I was noodling around with inSSIDer to see if my change to channel 11 on the 2.4Ghz band had moved me away from the stack of ssid that I had been seeing on auto. I had reset my channel manually to 11. I saw all of the ssid that I had seen before.
I saw that three of them from the same neighbor were using channel "6+2". InSSIDer did, in fact, show that all three were spread across channels 1 through 8. Another thing, all three of the 6+2 MAC addresses differed only in the last digit and were sequential.
They also had one ssid in the 5Ghz band and its ssid corresponded to one of those on 2.4.
Everyone else I saw was spread across channels 1 - 8 with some even on 4. The only one on 11 with me is a very weak, sporadic signal.
I just really started wireless because my granddaughters have two laptops here and my wife and I finally moved up from flip-phones. I've been using hardwired networks since 1981. I'm pleading ignorance on wireless here about the 6+2 channel thing and the sequential ssid addresses.
Any help would be appreciated, I really don't want to knock on their door and ask (a last resort).
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