Methods and systems are presented for establishing communications in a wireless local area network involving obtaining at least one channel-specific measurement for each of a plurality of frequency channels, automatically selecting one of the plurality of frequency channels as a selected frequency channel by taking into account the at least one channel-specific measurement for each of the plurality of frequency channels, configuring a present access point (AP) device to transmit and receive data on the selected frequency channel, and configuring a present station (STA) device to transmit and receive data on the selected frequency channel, wherein the present AP device and the present STA device are capable of communicating data within a wireless local area network.