setting up your wifi? osx will help you pick the channel

There actually is some importance to picking a ‘free’ or not taken channel (or more) when configuring wifi, now ‘auto settings’ never show you what they do and the results are visible. For mac users, there is a built in tool, that can help with picking up the right channel. use your terminal and issue


/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s


you will get the list of nearby ssids, with their encryption type, channel and other info that might be useful