Should I set channels on the APs in some specific way?
We're using mostly apple hardware + ubiquiti APs, and to be honest I expected everything to "just work" with the defaults...
We're using mostly apple hardware + ubiquiti APs, and to be honest I expected everything to "just work" with the defaults...
Think of it this way: Each channel provides a fixed amount of bandwidth, and neighboring APs need to overlap slightly to provide seamless coverage. As a first order approximation, if two APs are on the same channel you'll have twice the range, but half the bandwidth because the spectrum would be shared between them.
(It's actually slightly worse than this, because collisions will happen causing additional overhead.)