Band-Steering-RSSI-Threshold

Signal strength in dBm that a client must have on the other band in order for it to be steered. This is used for the band-steering feature of Client Management.

A higher signal threshold reduces the number of potentially steerable clients, thus limiting the options available to the Client Management. At the same time this would be useful in environments with high quality demands, for example where VoIP is heavily used. This requires very good signal coverage and a higher density of access points.

A lower signal threshold increases the number of potentially steerable clients, although there is a risk that clients could be assigned to a band with a poor signal quality. Clients may even refuse to be steered to a band with a poorer signal quality. This is a help in environments with coverage over a large area. Values below -80 dBm produce poor results, as the likelihood increases that clients cannot connect to the band.

The default value is ideal for office environments.