{"id":198,"date":"2010-09-05T00:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=198"},"modified":"2010-09-05T00:23:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T23:23:06","slug":"finding-a-free-wireless-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Finding a free wireless channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of my neighbours are blasting out wireless networks that I can pick up in my home. But how can I ensure I get the best performance from my own network?\u00c2\u00a0 Simply put I need to choose a different channel. But how can I find out what channels are in use?<\/p>\n

netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid<\/code><\/p>\n

Find a free one (in my case anything but channel 11) and set the access point to it. Simple!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of my neighbours are blasting out wireless networks that I can pick up in my home. But how can … More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[222,40,221],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}