Hi
Clients usually uses RSSI basically to take decision. If you had the chance to look at clients decision algorithm, RSSI is almost everything the worry about. Well, I know this may does not make sense considering that the AP at 10 ft should provide always higher RSSI but this is not that easy. For some reason, i´ve seen poor decision like that all the times.
There are some mechanism in order to educate clients but in my opinion, those mechanism all comes with a cost. One of them is RX-SOP. RX-SOP creates an virtual cell boundary, that force Access Point to ignore signal at certain level. This way, if you are far way from AP cell, you can´t connect. But, if you connect and then you move away, RX-SOP does not disconnect you. Stick clients problems remains.
Another feature, and perhaps better then RX-SOP, is Optimized Roaming. Optimized Roaming works similar but it controls not only the entrance on the AP cell but also the hand off. If you determine that your cell boundary is -67 dBm, AP will permit clients to connect when they reach this signal level and will rip then off if they walk away and reach -68 dBm.
However, those features also can create problem considering the signal variation due interference. Some clients may have problems.
The best advise still is try to achieve a better AP position and use smarter clients as possible. Usually, Intel adapters are very good with Cisco AP, although far way from perfect.
Flexconnect or Local mode does not play any role on this problem. This is a basic RF problem.
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