Enabling Band Balancing Globally

Band balancing attempts to balance the client load on radios by distributing clients between the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz radios.

Band balancing is disabled by default. To balance the number of clients connecting to the radios on an AP, the AP encourages dual-band and tri-band clients to connect to the 5 GHz band (and 6 GHz band, if available) when the configured percentage threshold is reached.

Complete the following steps to enable and configure band balancing globally.

  1. UI label difference for Unleashed
    From the main menu, select System Settings > Wireless > Client Load Balancing.
  2. Toggle the Band Balancing switch to on.
  3. For 2.4 GHz Client load (%), drag the slider along the bar to your desired value, which denotes the threshold above which dual-band and tri-band clients will be encouraged to connect to the 5 GHz or 6 GHz radios rather than the 2.4 GHz radio.
  4. Click Apply.
Note: When enabled globally, Band Balancing is applied to all WLANs by default. To disable Band Balancing for a specific WLAN, edit the Radio Control Settings for the WLAN using the WLAN Advanced Options. Refer to Disabling Load and Band Balancing for a WLAN.

Band Balancing

Parent topic: Client Load Balancing