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What are the radio settings users are using for best roaming performance

rsijoria — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:24:43 GMT

What are the radio settings users are using for best roaming performance

Re: What are the radio settings users are using for best roaming performance

rsijoria — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:27:26 GMT

I currently have 802.11r and 802.11k enabled, I also have auto channel and power enabled with max 15 for 2.4 and 17 for 5GHz making sure the APs are not too loud as most of my clients are handheld devices, I also have airtime based load balancing enabled, I also do not allow TX auth from AP if RX auth frame is less than 25dB.

I am also urging clients to connect to 5GHz and ignore 5 probes for 2.4GHz

Re: What are the radio settings users are using for best roaming performance

bruce_stahlin — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 04:43:07 GMT

Doing two of the same things as the previous post; reducing 2.4 max power to encourage roaming, band steering for 5 GHz enabled clients. One other thing that is enabled by default now, but in the past was a manual configuration; disable lower data rates also promotes roaming and reduces sticky clients.

I read a long time ago to NOT enable load balancing in roaming environments as it may interfere with roaming as it tries not to place to much load on heavily utilized APs. I'll try to find the document that makes the claim.

Re: What are the radio settings users are using for best roaming performance

rsijoria — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 02:31:07 GMT

Thanks for the response BJ, I have disabled the 11b data rates 1,2,and 5.5 for 2.4GHz(aerohive ), so essentially the default setting for the radio. The load balancing interfering with roaming, makes sense as the AP might end up not roaming and rather than trying to load balance the client.

if you can find any documentation that will be great.

Thanks

Re: What are the radio settings users are using for best roaming performance

bruce_stahlin — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:21:25 GMT

Our SE found it...

You are correct. Any AP that has load balancing enabled should be able to see every other AP with load balancing turned on, which means large rooms/venues like auditoriums, gymnasiums, etc. The online help at docs.aerohive.com doesn’t really mention that, but we go over it in the ACMA class. Here’s the slide from the presentation deck that mentions it:

Re: What are the radio settings users are using for best roaming performance

bruce_stahlin — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:22:05 GMT

Re: What are the radio settings users are using for best roaming performance

rsijoria — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:58:29 GMT

Thank you for sharing the info BJ! thanks again