Soldato
So, my Zyxel APs are set to use DCS. There's an article here about it - https://community.zyxel.com/en/discussion/14121/how-to-solve-co-channel-interference-by-dcs - and basically at 3AM they do a scan and change their channels to those with minimal interference to avoid sharing a channel.
Yesterday, I noticed that the WiFiman app had an update to now show channel inteference, so I thought I'd check it out. And what it showed was that both my APs were interfering with each other on the 5GHz spectrum. It is my own doing as I realise I've chosen 80Mhz channel width which means I've shot my clear channels down to something like 6. And what I also hadn't done was allow the APs access to the higher DFS range. Oops. I basically had tied their hands. Sorry APs! So they were overlapping.
I unlocked the DFS range and quickly forced one AP to a higher channel, then set it back to using DCS. All seemed fine and the two APs were nicely seperated and I thought they'd handle themselves just fine from now on. But I've come back to check them today, after the DCS scan ran at 3AM, and it has set the two APs back to (what WiFiman calls) interfering channels. WTF. lol. I thought the whole point of DCS was that it was clever enough to keep them seperated? Unless seperated doesn't include overlap?
I only have one neighbour so I'm thinking, I know what channel my neighbour uses and I can stay well clear, either I:
1. Manually just select two channels and leave them locked forever.
2. Edit the 5Ghz channels in Nebula from "All available" and manually limit them to a range of 4 (non-overlapping) making it impossible for them to choose anything too close together but still let them change if they want to. Albeit, severly limited.
What would people recommend here? Slightly annoying that the DCS method isn't working as I'd hoped.
Thanks!
Yesterday, I noticed that the WiFiman app had an update to now show channel inteference, so I thought I'd check it out. And what it showed was that both my APs were interfering with each other on the 5GHz spectrum. It is my own doing as I realise I've chosen 80Mhz channel width which means I've shot my clear channels down to something like 6. And what I also hadn't done was allow the APs access to the higher DFS range. Oops. I basically had tied their hands. Sorry APs! So they were overlapping.
I unlocked the DFS range and quickly forced one AP to a higher channel, then set it back to using DCS. All seemed fine and the two APs were nicely seperated and I thought they'd handle themselves just fine from now on. But I've come back to check them today, after the DCS scan ran at 3AM, and it has set the two APs back to (what WiFiman calls) interfering channels. WTF. lol. I thought the whole point of DCS was that it was clever enough to keep them seperated? Unless seperated doesn't include overlap?
I only have one neighbour so I'm thinking, I know what channel my neighbour uses and I can stay well clear, either I:
1. Manually just select two channels and leave them locked forever.
2. Edit the 5Ghz channels in Nebula from "All available" and manually limit them to a range of 4 (non-overlapping) making it impossible for them to choose anything too close together but still let them change if they want to. Albeit, severly limited.
What would people recommend here? Slightly annoying that the DCS method isn't working as I'd hoped.
Thanks!
stop attacking me. lol. Nah its all good now, I restricted the channels to non-overlapping ones and it is happily doing as it is told now. Today we're on 48 still and the other is 112. Yey. 
