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Wireless Load Balancing
This chapter shows you how to configure wireless load balancing.
13.1 Wireless Load Balancing Overview
Wireless load balancing is the process whereby you limit the number of connections allowed on an wireless access point (AP) or you limit the amount of wireless traffic transmitted and received on it. Because there is a hard upper limit on the AP’s wireless bandwidth, this can be a crucial function in areas crowded with wireless users. Rather than let every user connect and subsequently dilute the available bandwidth to the point where each connecting device receives a meager trickle, the load balanced AP instead limits the incoming connections as a means to maintain bandwidth integrity.
13.2 Wireless Load Balancing Commands
The following table describes the commands available for wireless load balancing. You must use the configure terminal command to enter the configuration mode before you can use these commands.
Table 46 Command Summary: Load Balancing
COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
[no] | Enables an overloaded AP to disconnect (“kick”) idle |
| clients or clients with noticeably weak connections. |
Enables load balancing based on either number of | |
| stations (also known as wireless clients) or wireless traffic |
| on an AP. |
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If load balancing by the number of stations/wireless | |
| clients, this sets the maximum number of devices allowed |
| to connect to a |
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If load balancing by traffic threshold, this sets the traffic | |
medium} | threshold level. |
Sets the load balancing alpha value. | |
| When the AP is balanced, then this setting delays a |
| client’s association with it by this number of seconds. |
| Note: This parameter has been optimized for |
| the NXC and should not be changed |
| unless you have been specifically |
| directed to do so by ZyXEL support. |
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