Manage Load Balancing For The Radios - NETGEAR WAX628 User Manual

Insight Managed WiFi 6 AX5400 Access Point Model WAX628
4. Select Management > Configuration > Wireless > Advanced > Wireless Settings.
The Wireless Settings page displays.
5. To change the multicast and broadcast rate limiting settings, under
Broadcast/Multicast Rate Limiting for the radio, take one of the following actions:
• To change the rate limiting setting, move the slider. By default, the setting is 50
(the maximum possible value), which specifies a maximum rate limit of 50 packets
per second.
• To disable or enable multicast and broadcast rate limiting, clear or select the
small check box.
6. Click the Apply button.
A warning pop-up window displays.
7. Click the OK button.
The pop-up window closes and your settings are saved. The radio or radios restart
and WiFi clients might need to reconnect.

Manage load balancing for the radios

You can configure the radio utilization thresholds to enable each radio to maintain the
speed and performance of the WiFi network as clients associate with and disassociate
from the WiFi network.
If you enable load balancing, client associations depend on the maximum number of
clients per radio, the channel load per radio, and each client's Received Signal Strength
Indicator (RSSI). New client associations are allowed if a radio's utilization remains within
the defined load balancing settings. If a radio's utilization exceeds the defined load
balancing settings, new client associations are temporary halted until the radio's
utilization falls within the defined load balancing settings.
Note: The Dashboard page can show information about the client and traffic distribution
per radio as well as the client, traffic, and channel utilization for each radio (see Display
client distribution, connected clients, and client trends on page 185 and View WiFi and
Ethernet traffic, traffic and ARP statistics, and channel utilization on page 189).
By default, all of the following types of load balancing are enabled with their default
settings:
• Load balancing based on the maximum number of clients: The access point
allows client associations up to the specified maximum number of clients. After the
Manage the Advanced Radio
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