Sideband lobes might not carry Wi-Fi data, but they are fully capable of drowning out ZigBee transmissions.
The two channel reuse approach seems to make impossible to not have overlap on the same channel.
I've got APs setup in a triangle - two indoors (hAP ax³ and hAP ax²), and one outdoors (wAP ac). The outdoors one is on full power for 2.4GHz, the indoors ones are on low power for 2.4GHz - only to cover 5GHz incapable devices.
One of indoors AP not-negligbly overlaps with outdoors AP only in not highly used areas - such as vestibule, hallway. So, I've set this one to be on same channel 6 as the outdoors one, the other indoors is left on channel 1.
What would you go with for WiFi?
- 1, and then 6 and 6 for weakly area-overlapping APs, or
- 1, and then 6 and 7 for weakly area-overlapping APs, or
- some overlapping three channel reuse, i.e. 1, 4, 7, or?
And, is there an option to have 10MHz wide WiFi channels for 2.4GHz?