Rate Shift before Roaming?

[sburrow]

If, for example, an 1130AG Access Point was configured for all data rates available under 802.11b & g would clients rate shift down to 1Mbps before considering roaming to an adjacent Access Point with higher data rates available?

[Stephen Rodriguez · Accepted solution]

The client doesn't look at the data rates, it looks at the signal strength and if it is already associated to an AP.

So, yes, you should get a rateshift down to 1M, with no roam happening. Remember that wireless is best effort, and you could still have a -50dbm signal strength and pass at 1M, depending on lots of different variables.