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wilber87
Oct 04, 2018Aspirant
What if a mesh wifi access point reaches maximum connections?
What if a mesh wifi access point reaches maximum connections and a new device wants to join the network at the location of that access point? Will the device be switched to the other access point aut...
splogue
Oct 04, 2018Tutor
I have three satellites and over a hundred devices, so I've been watching closely to see if there is load balancing. There doesn't seem to be. One of my nodes gets over forty connections, while fairly nearby nodes get far less. I believe it is going just on signal strength to determine whether to hand off clients to other nodes, not capacity.
Sean