limit connections

[micwill3]

If there is a meeting with 500 people, and the room has multiple APs, is there a way to limit the number of concurrent connections? Meaning the devices general connect to the AP with the strongest signal. So if all connect to this device it would be bad. Rather connect to a weaker AP and get better service due to less load. Thanks

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[Felix Arrieta]

There's no way to limit the number of connections per AP, as you said the client is the one that decide  which AP to join based on the signal and  other metrics such as missed becons, frame acknowledgement and other vendor specific.

This design issue can only be address by doing a site survey; start from indentifying the antenna location and  measuring the access points signal, testing both 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ radius to determine their  signal values to define location and signal coverage.

There is a way to limit the number of clients per SSID assuming you have a WLC, I know  it is not what you're looking for anyways, just saying to avoid any confusion.

cheers,

[Jernej Vodopivec]

Felix, could be a partial solution to enable aggresive load balancing on the wlc?

[George Stefanick]

Unfortunately no. Aggressive load balance doesnt work. Most clients ignore reason code 17.

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[Felix Arrieta]

Just as George mention  the client will insist and get join anyways.

cheers,

[Saravanan Lakshmanan]

Wireless LAN Design Guide for High Density Client Environments

http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/education/cisco_wlan_design_guide.pdf