Sure, but its not just one machine its a whole bunch of them on many locations with all 3 APs, (Mini, Enterprise & Rugged)
Ok heres the main issue:
If i set radios like this:
5Ghz will work fine, and band steering works, but theres a big problem, 5Ghz signal may drop to a point where its unusable and still not switch bands, for example, when i set it like this what happens is certain clients will connect to an AP at 5Ghz, and stay connected even with really bad signal but still working (85+ db, 75% packet loss) and even tho theres a 2.4 band available with better signal they will not switch, causing intermittent/unusable service to those clients.
So to mitigate this i change the settings to this:
Now here is the problem, with these settings basically all clients are dumped down to 2.4Ghz and barely any connect to 5ghz, ive tested many of the settings but none seem to make any difference, if i set the limit to on, basically to any power level no matter which, they all drop to 2.4Ghz.
The reason i wanted the enforce option was to force them to 5ghz if they were within acceptable range (because if not the AP would drop them and force them down to 2.4Ghz)
If the threshold would work properly it would be perfect but it doesn’t, its either almost all clients on 5 or almost all on 2.4. no middle ground
I’ve had this problem for a number of years now on many different customer setups and its been an annoying pain, to workaround it, i’ve had to move APs to avoid “hell” zones where the 5g would stick and never swap but also not work.
This is the first time i cannot fix it by physically moving the units around, i’ve placed APs nearly everywhere but the clients sometimes connect to one with bad signal and i get constant complaints about bad network performance, and if i swap em to 2.4g (which i’ve done on other setups with less clients) the load is so high the network collapses, so 2.4 is not an option.
Im not sure what to do, i tried removing the unit from incontrol and using it manually with the force option, it seems to do what I expect it to do, but i couldn’t test it further because i would have to remove and reprogram 5 units for an effective real life test.
Incontrol ID is X2G2Bd if you want to take a look a it.
PS: please allow incontrol settings changing on the unit for APs like you do on the switches, on a switch if you change any setting on the actual Switch UI the change gets uploaded into incontrol, and all settings are visible (not disabled) when connected to incontrol. this would allow us to play with custom radio settings when we run into trouble spots we need to change things to fix that otherwise we cant touch