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a. Client has associated with a non-preferred band, RSSI is checked if it is above threshold. If it is above threshold, client is disassociated from the band and Steered to preferred band using Pre-association procedure.

  • Utilization Threshold for client device which support both 2.4GHz and 5GHz -

a. Assuming, all 5GHz supported devices are directed to connect to 5GHz band initially. When the number of clients connected to 5GHz band is more than the set Utilization threshold, the clients have to be moved from 5GHz to 2.4GHz band to improve network accessibility to connected wireless clients.

Post-association Band Steering

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iwconfig wlan0 | grep Signal | cut -d '=' -f3 | cut -d ' ' -f1

Command to obtain the frequency client is associated:

iwconfig wlan0 | grep Frequency | cut -d ':' -f3 | cut -d ' ' -f1

Based on Cisco chart for conversion of arbitary unit to dbm:

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