What is the criteria for selecting a radio, B or A?

[RookThis]

We have Dell laptops that seem to select the B radios over the A even when we have the registry settings to prefer the A over the B. What is the criteria for associating to a particular radio, is it signal strength? Has anyone ever had this particular issue, and if so, how did you over-come this? We are trying to run voice over the B and data over the A, but we have some clients that do not support the A radios.

Thanks...

 

[RookThis]

I need to clarify one thing... Most of the Laptops have A radios, but we have a few that do not support the A. For this reason we are enabling the B radios on the data side to enable those machines to access the network. The problem that we are encountering is that the machines that do support the A radio seem to prefer the B instead. We want to limit the number of clients that associate to the B, but it's hard to enforce that.

Thanks again!

 

[8ender]

You might want to configure two SSID's for your network, one for A radio and one for B radio, and point the clients to which SSID you want them to connect to. That will force the client to connect to the desired network.

 

[RookThis]

Thanks for the response... Some of the machines do not support the A radios, so I have to take that into account. I've tried defining three ssids... one for the wireless handsets, one for just B support, and one for just the A clients. The problem that we are seeing is that the majority of the clients prefer to associate with the B instead of the A. That's our dilema.