Friday, October 19, 2018

Apple TV and channels 149 and 153 on the 5GHz wireless (x-post from /r/wireless)

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. We've been having wireless troubles at multiple sites for a while and the cause seems to be excessive multicast traffic. We've disabled IPv6 on the network which helped a little but my boss decided today to disable channels 149 and 153 on our 5GHz AP radios, the reason being that's the channels ATVs multicast on.

I'm no wireless guru so I have to ask, that's not how wireless works, is it? Devices don't pick which radio channels to work on do they? I thought it was the AP that picked the channel.

Thanks in advance.



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