Forcing The Client Adapter To Reassociate - Cisco Aironet 340 Series Installation And Configuration Manual

Forcing the Client Adapter to Reassociate

Step 4 When you click the Stop button or when the Percent Complete reaches 100%, the active mode changes
back to the passive mode.
Step 5 Click OK or Cancel to exit the site survey application.
Forcing the Client Adapter to Reassociate
A client adapter will attempt to maintain its association to an access point for as long as it can. Therefore
if you are on a fringe area while conducting a site survey, you may want to try to force the adapter to
disassociate from the access point to which it is currently associated in the hope that it will reassociate
to another access point.
Follow the steps below to attempt to force the client adapter to disassociate from its current access point
and reassociate to another during a site survey.
While SST is open, double-click the Cisco ACU icon or select Start > Programs > Cisco > Aironet
Step 1
Client Utility to also open ACU.
Click OK on the ACU screen. The first line of the Site Survey screen displays "Not Associated" while
Step 2
the client adapter disassociates from its current access point and then displays "Associated" once the
adapter is reset and reassociated to an access point.
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Appendix E Performing a Site Survey
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