Can Band Steering be turned off while having the same SSID on both radios?

unknown

I've heard that "the" way to defeat band steering (which is enabled by default) is to have different SSIDs on the 2.4Gig radios vs the 5Gig radios.



I've created 2 different WLANs that share the same SSID, assigned a WLAN to each radio + it looks like that defeated band steering.



Can anyone confirm that this works?


(reliably)



notes:



wlan public-24


ssid public


description "public 2.4Ghz"


vlan 199


ofdm-only


exit



wlan public-50


ssid public


description "public 5Ghz"


vlan 199


ofdm-only


exit



wlan-group public-24


wlan public-24


exit



wlan-group public-50


wlan public-50


exit

michael_brado

Band Balancing, as its called in 9.8 firmware, can be enabled/disabled under ZD


per-WLAN advanced configuration options. So is client load-balancing. With these


options disabled on the wireless infrastructure, would leave any band steering/ balancing to be a decision made by the client device.