Manage Sticky Clients - NETGEAR WAX610 User Manual

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By default, load balancing is disabled. When you enable load balancing, all three
types of load balancing are enabled. You can individually disable on ore more types
of load balancing.
6. To individually enable or disable one or more types of load balancing, do the
following:
• To disable a particular type of load balancing, clear the small blue check box to
the left of the Based On text.
• To enable a particular type of load balancing, select the small blue check box to
the left of the Based On text.
7. To change the load balancing settings, do the following:
• Based On Maximum Number Of Clients. For each radio, move the associated
slider to specify the maximum number of clients allowed, before the radio stops
accepting new client associations. For each radio, the minimum number of clients
is 5 and the maximum number is 200, and the default number is 200.
• Based On Channel Load. For each radio, move the associated slider to specify
the maximum percentage of channel load that is allowed on the radio, before it
stops accepting new client associations. For each radio, the minimum percentage
of channel load is 50, the maximum percentage is 90, and the default percentage
is 70.
• Based on Channel Receive Signal Strength. For each radio, move the associated
slider to specify the minimum required RSSI value for an individual client, below
which the radio does not accept the client association. For each radio, the
minimum RSSI value is 1, the maximum value is 50, and the default value is 23.
8. Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.

Manage sticky clients

During roaming, sticky clients do not change to an access point with a better signal but
remain associated with (that is, stick to) their initial access point, even though the quality
of the connection to that access point is degraded. Such a situation causes delay for
other clients that are associated with that access point.
Note: For a home WiFi network with a single access point, a sticky client is useful
because no other access point is available to associate with during roaming. For a
business or enterprise network with multiple access points, a sticky client can cause a
drain on WiFi resources.
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