# Advice for Wireless Network owners - try another channel.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-wireless-network-owners-try-another-channel/524312>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 9, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-wireless-network-owners-try-another-channel/524312 "2010-01-09T19:50:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-wireless-network-owners-try-another-channel/524312/1 "2010-01-09T19:50:30Z")

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Especially if you live in a country with terraced housing.

I changed mine from the default 11 to 7 and my bandwidth shot up from about 5mbits to around 15mbits.

I guess my neighbours either side had both left theirs at 11.

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**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-wireless-network-owners-try-another-channel/524312/2 "2010-01-09T21:06:27Z")

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This is good advice, however be warned that the channels actually _overlap_! This means that, for instance, channels 6 and 7 will still interfere with each other(thank you, IEEE). The three standard channels that don’t overlap are 1, 6 and 11.