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Gene,

how is it that the client see the big bubble (same frequency blanket) as a separate collision domain?

The AP can see it as a separate collision domain because of the intelligence in the switch but the client is a standard client. Before it can transmit it will perform a CCA as per CSMA/CA and it will determine that another client is transmitting.

I guess my real question is how the client can see separate collision domain? I have always thought that

different frequencies -> different collision domain