Chapter 7 Wireless
until it can afford the bandwidth or the laptop is picked up by a different AP with bandwidth to
spare.
Figure 35 Delaying a Connection
The second response your AP can take is to kick the connections that are pushing it over its
balanced bandwidth allotment.
Figure 36 Kicking a Connection
Connections are kicked based on either idle timeout or signal strength. The NWA first looks to
see which devices have been idle the longest, then starts kicking them in order of highest idle time.
If no connections are idle, the next criteria the NWA analyzes is signal strength. Devices with the
weakest signal strength are kicked first.
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