Chapter 21 Load Balancing

can afford the bandwidth for it or the red laptop is picked up by a different AP that has bandwidth to spare.

Figure 162 Delaying a Connection

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The second response your AP can take is to kick the connections that are pushing it over its balanced bandwidth allotment.

Figure 163 Kicking a Connection

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Connections are kicked based on either idle timeout or signal strength. The NWA first looks to see which devices have been idle the longest, then starts kicking them in order of highest idle time. If no connections are idle, the next criteria the NWA analyzes is signal strength. Devices with the weakest signal strength are kicked first.

 

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