Solved: Manual assignment of wireless clients in AP

jubair151 · ‎01-06-2015

Hi,

I have a meeting room of 30 Laptops. I connected 2 APs in 2 corner of meeting room. I want to manually register my some of clients to one AP and others are in second AP. Is there any way to achieve this.

Regards,

Jubair.S

Leo Laohoo · ‎01-06-2015

Is there any disadvantage/problem with this client load balancing??

As what Scott has mentioned, this will depend on the wireless client. If the wireless client fully support client load balancing then the answer is a definite "yes".

If the client does NOT fully support (includes "partial" support) then the client will fail to associate to the WLAN. When I mean "partial" support, I mean "it's written in the document" but poorly executed in the code of the wireless client.

It is very hard to determine how to alleviate the issue because information, such as a 3D layout of the place (same floor, upstairs and downstairs), is not available. But If I was to look at a cube and "room" of concern is located in the centre of the cube then one method to look into is to lower the data rates of the AP. By doing so, the APs signal "footprint" gets lessened to the degree that wireless clients far away from the AP won't be able to associate. Another thing to look into update the wireless drivers of the wireless client.

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Leo Laohoo · ‎01-06-2015

Yes and no.

By default, you can't. But if you go to each client, there are some drivers which allows you to manually "lock" the wireless client to a particular AP.

At the end of the day, it is the wireless client (and not the wireless access point) that makes the decision which AP to join.

jubair151 · ‎01-06-2015

Hi leo,

Thanks for the advice, however if I am going with SSID->advance->client load balance, will I get some of the clients are associated with other one. Is there any disadvantage/problem with this client load balancing??

Regards,

Jubair.S

Scott Fella · ‎01-06-2015

I would not enable that feature. Clients have to support that and if they don't, well, they have issues connecting.

-Scott

-Scott
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Leo Laohoo · ‎01-06-2015

Is there any disadvantage/problem with this client load balancing??

As what Scott has mentioned, this will depend on the wireless client. If the wireless client fully support client load balancing then the answer is a definite "yes".

If the client does NOT fully support (includes "partial" support) then the client will fail to associate to the WLAN. When I mean "partial" support, I mean "it's written in the document" but poorly executed in the code of the wireless client.

It is very hard to determine how to alleviate the issue because information, such as a 3D layout of the place (same floor, upstairs and downstairs), is not available. But If I was to look at a cube and "room" of concern is located in the centre of the cube then one method to look into is to lower the data rates of the AP. By doing so, the APs signal "footprint" gets lessened to the degree that wireless clients far away from the AP won't be able to associate. Another thing to look into update the wireless drivers of the wireless client.