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Draft: Add a 'wifi.channel-width' setting

Beniamino Galvani requested to merge bg/wifi-ap-channel-width into main

Summary

Introduce a new 'wifi.channel-width' property that allows the use of a larger bandwidth in AP mode.

Purpose

At the moment, the AP mode always uses a 20MHz channel. To increase performances, let users specify a larger bandwidth; in that case, they also need to set a fixed channel.

When acting as client, the width is determined by the AP and so the property is not honored. It is actually forbidden to set a specific channel width in infrastructure mode.

#1243

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Edited by Beniamino Galvani

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