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A good "secret" is to use the DFS frequencies most routers won't choose by default. High end consumer routers will allow you to select these frequencies, and us
by throwaway189262 6y ago
A good "secret" is to use the DFS frequencies most routers won't choose by default. High end consumer routers will allow you to select these frequencies, and usually there's no nearby interference.
I have ~70 nearby networks visible but none on my DFS channel. Your signal can drop if the AP detects radar but unless you're near a weather radar station or airport it works fine IMO
- octoberfranklin 6y agoI dunno, a lot of commercial APs for hotels+such just spam the spectrum, creating a BSSID for every FCC-authorized channel. Like one box with 30 MAC addresses, one for every possible channel. It's crazy.
- throwaway189262 6y agoI guess that makes sense. I still haven't seen many using the DFS frequencies though. Presumably because they don't want to deal with testing related to avoiding radar. In my area every channel is saturated except for DFS.
- octoberfranklin 6y agoIf you're desperate there is always that Japan-only WiFi channel (assuming you aren't in Japan) that no other country has approved use of... almost all WiFi gear supports it under Linux. You didn't hear that from me.
- seszett 6y agoHow it works depends on your router, when it detects radar, my router just switches to one of the congested channels and never switches back to the DFS channel, which makes it rather impractical to use.