Cisco Valet M10 Wireless channel selection question

hello
Not sure if anyone knows or not, but I'm wondering how the option under the router wireless confirguration page, channel selection operates?
My Valet m10 (firmware: 2.0.03) offers an option to either manually set the wireless channel or have it set to 'Automatic' and I was wondering that when the option is set to 'Auto' how often does the router change channels.
Does it change only after being restarted?
Or does it change periodically all on it's own?
thanks
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How auto channel is supposed to work is that the router does a wireless survey and figures out which channel is best at the current time to lower signal interference between channels.
On some routers this feature doesn't work well and setting the channel manually is best.
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