Chapter 10 Wireless
NWA/WAC/WAX Series User’s Guide
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throughput is lowered or the client connection is picked up by another AP. If the client is picked up by
another AP then the original AP cannot resume the connection.
For example, here the AP has a balanced bandwidth allotment of 6 Mbps. If laptop
R
connects and it
pushes the AP over its allotment, say to 7 Mbps, then the AP delays the red laptop’s connection until it
can afford the bandwidth or the laptop is picked up by a different AP with bandwidth to spare.
Figure 81
Delaying a Connection
The second response your AP can take is to disassociate with clients that are pushing it over its balanced
bandwidth allotment.
Figure 82
Disassociating with a Client
Connections are cut based on either
idle timeout
or
signal strength
. The Zyxel Device 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 Zyxel Device analyzes is signal strength. Devices with the
weakest signal strength are kicked first.
