Has anyone here considered creating a separate SSID for the 5GHz band?
The ideas is to encourage users to exclusively use 5 GHZ over 2.4.
We've implemented band-steering, but it was suggested this would insure
that users use 5GHz and not fall back to 2.4.
Thanks.
-Neil
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Neil Johnson
We use a separate ssid for 5Ghz on our Ruckus devices. We mainly do it
to provide N series devices a clear channel. By default, if they can't
see the new ssid than they are using old stuff and we urge students to
upgrade.
Harry Rauch Sr. Network Analyst Eckerd College 4200 - 54th Ave S St.
Hello all,
I've been having problems using 802.1X authentication, or more
specifically, assignment of VLANs based on the RADIUS attributes.
Goal is to have one SSID, eduroam, to which both visitors and local
users authenticate when using the wireless service. Visitors remain in
the VLAN to
I've done this with cisco wireless and radius. I believe the radius attruibute
passed fron the radius server to the the wirelees session is the
'tunnel-private-id'. In the cisco wireless case I had to explicity allow this
attribute to change the networking tagging in order for it to effect the
I can confirm your goal is achievable just don't know about your particular
implementation; for us, the RADIUS server is programmed to send a different
value for the RADIUS attribute Filter-Id based on the successful
authentication from various proxies. With this information provided to the
We considered a 5Ghz SSID too but declined for the same reasons that
Karl noted. Our vendor suggested band steering. We have only done
minimal testing with band steering but it seems promising. I had 30
clients connected to a single AP in our testing with only 2.4 enabled.
When I turned
I have fantasized about doing this but have feared the VLAN change would
not prompt the clients to ask for a new IP. Looks like you have a
different issue but do you know, if you get the VLAN switching working,
how the clients will realize they need to ask for another IP?
As for
Band steering is favorable when you have similar coverage areas on both 2.4 and
5 ghz. That should be a given nowadays, however, with the adoption of 11n. I
recommend folks evaluate their RF designs first prior to tinkering with these
types of feature sets. Tune down your 2.4 so it's similar to
