Received wisdom on the community.ui.com boards is to not trust UniFi's "Auto" settings for channel or Tx power (or indeed anything else). Their auto channel selection is notoriously stupid, and as far as anyone can tell "Auto" power is just a synonym for "High", which is seldom what you want. Use a wifi scanner or the "Radios/Environment" tab in the UniFi GUI to identify which channels are cleanest where you are, and then select those as fixed channels. Don't put adjacent APs on the same channel.So I'm wondering about something. As I've said I live here in Atlanta. Worlds Busiest Airport. I've always had the DFS turned off on the asus routers to prevent them channel hopping. With that was the AX features disabled on 2.4 and 5.0. 2.0 I had limited to 20mhz and the 5.0 was set to 80mhz; both with fixed channels. Thoughts on this. Should I just leave most at default and go with it or set it the same as I've always done with my other routers; set channels, set bandwidth, guest network, etc. Thinking out loud...
Don't put adjacent APs on the same channel.
I have all 4x APs currently on the same channels. They share the total available bandwidth, but the roaming happens faster.
Yeah, "YMMV" is always applicable with wifi.Let @ATLga experiment and find own best settings.
Hmm, have you re-checked that with UniFi?
I do have both ap's set to use the same channels
Yes, if you're using wireless meshing then the parent and remote APs must use the same 5GHz channel, because that's where their backhaul traffic happens. (Unlike some Asus models, UniFi APs don't have a spare radio for backhaul.) But if you have wired APs, I think putting them on nonoverlapping channels is a better choice. With 802.11k there's no reason why a client would have to search to find a signal on another channel.This was actually one of my questions I had forgotten to ask, thanks @tgl for the initial comment. I do have both ap's set to use the same channels because I had always read previously on the old asus mesh threads when setting those up that they should use same channels for best roaming and that they wouldn't have to reassociate (or something like that as best I remember). I never did have a mesh setup so didn't test that theory.
I've noticed that when you make certain changes, the system reinitializes components
Do you ever do a complete reboot of your system; the gateway and the ap's?
On previous discussion about the ap channels
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