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
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 troubleshooti
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 up
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 have used a separate 5 GHz A SSID for years but we had some more control
over clients then you probably do. We had to create a 2.4 GHz BG SSID to
handle guest access and PDA/smartphones that couldn't handle both 5 GHz and
WPA2 security.
Todd Smith
Charleston Area Medical Center
-Origin
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
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
On 7/7/2011 10:29 AM, Johnson, Neil M wrote:
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
We are considering it for the purpose of Multicast TV as the quality on the 2.4
band is not satisfactory. We still need to do further testing in this area
before any determinations are made.
Chris
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> Has anyone here considered creating a separate SSID for the 5GHz band?
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> The ideas is t
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.
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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