topic Rate Shift before Roaming? in Wireless https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rate-shift-before-roaming/m-p/569673#M103079 <P>If, for example, an 1130AG Access Point was configured for all data rates available under 802.11b &amp; g would clients rate shift down to 1Mbps before considering roaming to an adjacent Access Point with higher data rates available?</P> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 19:12:58 GMT sburrow 2021-07-04T19:12:58Z Rate Shift before Roaming? https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rate-shift-before-roaming/m-p/569673#M103079 <P>If, for example, an 1130AG Access Point was configured for all data rates available under 802.11b &amp; g would clients rate shift down to 1Mbps before considering roaming to an adjacent Access Point with higher data rates available?</P> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 19:12:58 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rate-shift-before-roaming/m-p/569673#M103079 sburrow 2021-07-04T19:12:58Z Re: Rate Shift before Roaming? https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rate-shift-before-roaming/m-p/569674#M103080 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The client doesn't look at the data rates, it looks at the signal strength and if it is already associated to an AP. </P><P>So, yes, you should get a rateshift down to 1M, with no roam happening. Remember that wireless is best effort, and you could still have a -50dbm signal strength and pass at 1M, depending on lots of different variables.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:49:32 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/rate-shift-before-roaming/m-p/569674#M103080 Stephen Rodriguez 2006-06-07T23:49:32Z