DescriptionHow Does Band Steering Work?
ScopeRELATED
PRODUCTS: All products
RELATED
SOFTWARE VERSIONS: 4.x,
5.x
KEYWORDS: band
steering
Solution-
We support 2 types of Band Steering
- The first type is
A-Steering wherein all clients that are A-capable are moved to the
A-band.
- The next type is N-Steering wherein all clients that
are
AN-capable are moved to the A-band.
- In
N-Steering therefore, all ABG clients are steered to
BGN-band.
Band steering works in the following
way:
- Client probes on both bands
- Client's
probes on both bands is responded to
- Client sends an Auth on
BGN band (say)
- if the client is an ABGN client, the AP stays
quiet and does not respond on the BGN band
- the AP waits
until the client sends an Auth on the AN band
- the moment the
client does so, the AP responds to the Auth allowing the client to move
into state 2 (Authenticated but not Associated)
- And so on,
the client gets "steered" to A
