Band steering on R600 Unleashed?

prez_129784 — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:07:13 GMT

Hello,

Got a few R600s installed today and so far very impressed.

I did have one question, I was informed the R600 unleashed supported band steering but unless I'm missing it (or have old firmware and need to update) I don't see band steering settings anywhere. I did spot a Band Balancing option but that doesn't appear to be the same.

I also found a post where 10 2.4Ghz clients are needed before the AP would influence band steering - is that configurable for unleashed also assuming band steering is in fact supported?

Any ideas?

Thanks

Re: Band steering on R600 Unleashed?

john_d — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:25:36 GMT

Yeah, band-balancing is Ruckus's newer implementation of band steering. Instead of blindly directing everyone onto 5GHz, it attempts to be smarter about maintaining a certain load balance between 2.4 and 5GHz.

I think you are correct in that by default it takes until 5 or 10 client associations before it starts, and on Standalone/ZD there are rpmkey hidden knobs that allow you to tune its specific behavior... I'm not sure if those same options are available on Unleashed though -- Unleashed seems to have a very different CLI implementation.

But are you sure this is what you want? Personally I've had less than perfect luck with band steering, and that's not just with Ruckus. A lot of clients are very stubborn in wanting to connect to a particular BSSID it thought it knew about (such as the 2.4GHz one) and band steering merely adds a delay to connecting, or if set too aggressively causes the client to give up on your SSID altogether.

topic Band steering on R600 Unleashed? in Unleashed

Band steering on R600 Unleashed?

Re: Band steering on R600 Unleashed?