#ONE MAN BAND SETUP HOW TO#
#ONE MAN BAND SETUP SERIAL#

At this time, there may be no need to guide newly-added client to connect to CAP’s 5GHz wireless network any more. If it reaches the limitation, it means CAP already has many clients connected to its 5GHz wireless network. In this instance, we set it as “40”, which means Band Steering function will guide the first 40 dual-band clients to connect to CAP’s 5GHz wireless network in priority. 5GHz Maximum Connection Threshold means the “maximum number of clients that can be connected to CAP’s 5GHz wireless network in priority”.

#ONE MAN BAND SETUP SERIAL#

Here are the configuration methods of Band Steering function on TP-Link AC serial product: At this time, we can enable Band Steering function to guide newly-added client to connect to 5GHz wireless network with higher priority.

Because most clients (single-band or dual-band) are likely to connect to 2.4GHz wireless network, 2.4GHz wireless network is normally more crowded than 5GHz wireless network like the topology shown above.

( Note: Band Steering needs 2.4GHz & 5GHz wireless networks share the same wireless settings, otherwise Band Steering function will not work.)

CAP1750 has enabled 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless networks, and both 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless networks share the same wireless settings including SSID & Encryption settings.

A newly-added client which supports both 2.4GHz & 5GHz is trying to connect to wireless network “TP-LINK”.

#ONE MAN BAND SETUP HOW TO#

This document will introduce how to configure Band Steering function on TP-Link CAP/AC serial products with one configuration instance based on the topology above to achieve band steering between 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands of CAP1750.īased on the topology above: we can see that Band Steering function can avoid this kind of waste, which will lead dual-band clients to connect to 5GHz wireless network with higher priority. So if both single-band and dual-band clients are connected to 2.4GHz wireless network, 2.4GHz wireless network will be overloaded while 5GHz wireless network is relatively free.

As we know, some wireless clients can only work on 2.4GHz band while dual-band wireless clients can work on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands.

One man band setup