Alcatel-Lucent Stellar AP Series - Configuration and Recommendation; Band Steering; Feature Description

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It’s balancing the clients working on the same radio band.
4.8.2 Configuration and Recommendation
The “load balancing” could be activated from “WEB UI -> Wireless” page as below:
4.9 Band Steering
4.9.1 Feature description
Dual-band devices could be associated with the AP either in 2.4GHz or 5GHz. “Band
Steering” feature is able to help this kind of devices to be associated on a better radio
band, which is based on:
• RSSI in 5GHz radio.
• RF utilization of the channel of each radio band.
• Number of stations on the radio
• The difference of the stations on the two radio bands.
The band steering feature is handled during “Pre-association” phase.