Correct. I’m on Unifi gear with two bands. When it has opportunities to do so, it moves around the SSIDs themselves, too, which seems to happen after every clie

Correct. I’m on Unifi gear with two bands. When it has opportunities to do so, it moves around the SSIDs themselves, too, which seems to happen after every client gets steered to one of them (it’ll reconfigure the other). I might have enabled this feature at some point without realizing it. My neighbor moves around his channels, too. That’s what’s making me comment that it’s likely more common than we think. I’m not at home to prove this and I’m getting downvoted for sharing, but I’ve watched him move between 36, 40, and 44 at a frequency that suggests it is happening automatically, probably when all of his sessions go idle or something. I have observed this with multiple tools. My 5 GHz was on 44 this morning, because I happened to look for unrelated reasons. I just SSH’d home and it’s now on 36 without interaction from me. Specifications are not implementations. I’m almost positive this is a common feature which I’ve seen in many APs over the years, even though it’s not per-packet like Bluetooth (which I was also aware of, given that I'm experimenting with a Bluetooth 5 mesh system for IIoT).