This dialog enables you to configure the settings for band steering in LANconfig.
The following features are available under :
- Preferred frequency band
- Specifies the frequency band to which the device steers WLAN clients. Possible values are:
- 2.4 GHz: The device steers clients to the 2.4-GHz frequency band.
- 5 GHz: The device steers clients to the 5-GHz frequency band.
- Probe request age-out time
- The time for which the access point steers the WLAN client to the preferred frequency band. The default value is 120 seconds.
- Initial block time
- If an access point with a 5-GHz DFS radio module is put into operation for the first time, and also following a restart, it cannot detect any dual-band capable WLAN clients during the DFS scan. As a result, the access point cannot direct a WLAN client to a preferred 5-GHz band. Instead, the 2.4-GHz radio module would answer the client request and forward it to the 2.4-GHz band.
By setting an initial block time, the radio module that is configured to 2.4-GHz only responds to client requests after the specified delay. The default value is 10 seconds.
The delayed response to the 2.4 GHz probes causes WLAN clients, which would otherwise expect to find an access point in the 2.4 GHz band, to scan again in the 5 GHz band.
Note: Registration of a purely 2.4-GHz WLAN client also occurs after this delay time. If no 5-GHz WLAN clients are present in the network, the delay time should be set to 0 seconds.
