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Does band steering work for open wlans?

salvatore_busce
New Contributor III
We have sites with 70% apple devices but see very little on the 5GHz radios. Does band steering work for open wlans?
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keith_redfield
Valued Contributor II
Resurrecting an old thread. We found that a default setting in the AP's may not be optimal for some clients - so if you are seeing poor band-balancing results try (on the AP)

set rpmkey wifi0/wlan-withholding-limit 7

This ups the number of probe/auths to 7

Preliminary testing shows this improves the band-balancing behavior for some stubbornly 2.4ghz clients without adversely affecting others. But you should test on your own client sets and be prepared to set it back to default (1) if you see adverse effects.

jason_vore
New Contributor
Keith,

Just wanting to clarify one thing. I'm assuming you the have wifi1/wlan-withholding-limit set to 1?

keith_redfield
Valued Contributor II
I believe that's correct but have not yet had a chance to verify.