I find the opposite to be true with band steering. If we turn it off, the majority of our clients won't connect to 5 Ghz, even if they are right above an AP. This causes lots of disconnect problems and congestion in the 2.4 Ghz spectrum. Turning band steering on fixes the problem for us.
*--Jeremy L. Gibbs* Sr. Network Engineer Utica College IITS On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Turner, Ryan H <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > > > This is probably a fool’s errand, but we are debating experimenting with > turning off the 2.4 spectrum on our eduroam SSID on parts of campus that > have a dense 5 gig coverage. We’ve always positioned eduroam as the > premium SSID, and left a WPA2-PSK SSID for all the rest that don’t support > advanced EAP methods. We are debating trying this in just the IT building > to start (see how many people scream). Has anyone done anything like > this? The goals would be to continually remove traffic from the garbage > bands, hopefully increasing client performance. Band steering isn’t very > good. > > > > Thanks, > > Ryan Turner > > The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > [email protected] > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
