While I generally agree with this article, and turned down the transmit power on my AP in my apartment to be neighborly, coordinating this across the many APs present in a residential area is tricky. In my experience, many of your neighbors are going to be running either the stock AP provided by the ISP, or some "gaming class" thing that advertises <i>very</i> optimistic speeds. In either case, you're going to be fighting with stock firmware. And it seems to me that the stock firmware of most consumer-grade APs doesn't expose options like channel assignment or Tx power, not even behind a secret advanced settings page with a big scary "You will void your warranty" header. To compare the stock firmware on most consumer-grade APs to a dumpster fire is to commit a gross and unjustifiable insult to dumpster fires.<p>When I tried to coordinate better channel assignment and transmit power with my neighbors in my apartment complex, the effort very quickly died for the reasons above. Most neighbors didn't know or care about the settings on the magic box that made their Netflix or Xbox work, and even if they did, the config options simply weren't there.<p>I wish there were more I could do to change this situation. As it is, all I can do is vote with my wallet and buy less horrible brands like Ubquiti, where advanced options like channel assignment and Tx power are available to me if I want them.