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My router is broadcasting multiple virtual wireless networks (4 total) and I have seen a lot about multiple networks being on one channel causing clogging of that channel.
Since I'm broadcasting virtual wireless networks from a single device, will they cause network clogging or interference for other physical APs using the same channel?
Will it cause clogging for devices connected to my AP?
A small part of my thinking here is that (other than my actual uses for the 4 networks) having these 4 virtual wireless networks broadcasting will discourage others from using the channel i'm in, thus hopefully reducing the chance of interference from a newly setup AP (assuming it's owner is smart enough to change the channel).
thank you very much for the information, that's very helpful - one last bit of information i'd like to know: since im broadcasting virtual wireless networks (vwlan1 - vwlan 3) that all technically come from the same physical AP, would this affect my primary wireless network (wlan0) in the way you described above? – Eric Nemchik – 2013-06-08T17:01:33.103
If it's on the same channel it would. – jpaugh – 2013-06-08T18:24:43.633