topic Define an Area Without WLAN Coverage in Wireless

Define an Area Without WLAN Coverage

concico9982 — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 05:59:03 GMT

Hi all,

i have an Outdoor Area covered by Cisco Wireless LAN Solution (WCS,WLC,1550AP root and Mesh lightweight). I need to disable power transmission for some of these APs in the 2..4GHz.

I tried two possible way, but both are not working:

1) Set the power of 802.11g/g/n to 0. There is no such option (power can be set manually from 1 to 5 and, as per the documentation, each level is a reduction of 3dB. Therefore, even if i put to the minimum, i cannot guarantee that there is no utilization of the 2.4GHz spectrum).

2) Define an AP group containing these APs and don't add any SSID. Is not possible because at least one SSID must be added on each AP group.

Can somebody advice a working solution/setting in AP/WLC/WCS that help me to avoid transmission in 2.4GHZ? Otherwise the only solution is to power them off, but is not the solution i'm looking for.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Define an Area Without WLAN Coverage

Scott Fella — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:28:18 GMT

I would think that in the ap configuration tab under configure, you can disable the radio itself.

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Re: Define an Area Without WLAN Coverage

concico9982 — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:14:12 GMT

In order to be sure that i didn't misunderstand are you suggesting to go in WCS on:

Radio Detail : 802.11b/g/n

Configure> Access Points > "AP_NAME" > Radio Detail

and in Admin Status uncheck?

Please see the attached image.

Thanks for your reply.

Define an Area Without WLAN Coverage

Saravanan Lakshmanan — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:18:35 GMT

yes, unchecking this option will bring 2.4ghz radio down on this ap. you can also globally disable 2.4 network from b/g radio page that disables 2.4 radio on all APs.

Re: Define an Area Without WLAN Coverage

Scott Fella — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:26:08 GMT

Yes... But I normally do that straight from the WLC not WCS. You can do it from WCS if you want.

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