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Band Steering

chemban_2015
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Hi

How to enable band steering in wlc?

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Rasika Nayanajith
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Under WLAN Advanced settings, there should be a check box for "client band select". Tick that box and save if you want to enable this feature

HTH

Rasika

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Hi,

band select and band steering are same concept ?

Thank you 

Yes, it is same. Different vendor use different term for the same thing.

HTH

Rasika

mohanak
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Refer the link : https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/81896/load-balancing-and-band-select-cisco-wireless-lan-controller#Band_Select_or_Band_Direction

Band Select or Band Direction

The 2.4-GHz band is often congested. Clients on this band typically experience interference from Bluetooth devices, microwave ovens, and cordless phones as well as co-channel interference from other access points because of the 802.11b/g limit of three non-overlapping channels. You can use this feature to combat these sources of interference and improve overall network performance. Band direction enables client radios that are capable of dual-band (2.4- and 5-GHz) operation to move to a less congested 5-GHz access point. 

Band selection works by regulating/suppressing probe responses from the clients? 2.4 GHz radio. It makes 5-GHz channels more attractive to clients by delaying probe responses on the 2.4-GHz channels. The feature is disabled by default. The configurable options are defined globally (Wireless > Advanced > Band Select), but the feature itself can be enabled per WLAN (WLAN > Advanced > Client Band Select). This is useful if you want to disable band selection for a select group of clients (such as time-sensitive voice clients).

Use the following CLI to enable this feature on the WLAN:

(WLC) >config wlan band-select allow enable

The global configuration options are:

(WLC) >config band-select ?

cycle-count    Sets the Band Select probe cycle count.

cycle-threshold Sets the time threshold for a new scanning cycle.

expire         Sets the entry expire.

client-rssi    Sets the client RSSI threshold.

HI Chemban,

Please check this post for enable band selection

Thank you

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