WiFi Smart connect - Enable Load Balance.

[Igs]

Hi. I see no much information about this feature. The Asus explanation is very poor.

Does it work at all? If I choose it, then my device always stays at 2.4GHz. No matter how heavily I load it with the traffic.

 

[OzarkEdge]

Hi. I see no much information about this feature. The Asus explanation is very poor.

Does it work at all? If I choose it, then my device always stays at 2.4GHz. No matter how heavily I load it with the traffic.

Smart Connect is band steering, not load balancing. Clients decide where to connect; SC may help them choose wisely for the best connection, not to balance present/future/unknowable load (imagine a function switching wireless client connections willy-nilly trying to balance variable user/usage loads... what a client reconnection mess that would be). Option B is to disable SC, define defferent SSIDs, and only connect your client to the preferred SSID/band... manual band steering. Option C for a one-off, old, difficult client... retire it.

OE

 

[Igs]

Hi. But my question was, what the Load Balance function is in SC settings.

Smart Connection works amazingly well on my side. Better than without.
It knows better when phy may occurs due to decreased signal (lower threshold)

 

[OzarkEdge]

Hi. But my question was, what the Load Balance function is in SC settings.

My answer was that SC performs band steering for best client connection, not for load balancing. See Network Tools\Smart Connect Rules for additional control over SC band steering.

OE

 

[Igs]

Yepp. I'm aware of this. But what the Load Balancing does? It is there, under SC settings .Not all Asus routers have this option. RT-AX86U Pro have it.

 

[bennor]

But what the Load Balancing does? It is there, under SC settings .Not all Asus routers have this option. RT-AX86U Pro have it.

It may help if you post a screen shot of what you are seeing for the settings and what firmware the router is running. Edit: Never mind my now removed comment about load balance. Now I see where load balance is, under Network Tools > Smart Connect Rule.

PS: There is a older Asus-Merlin subforum discussion on the Smart Connect Rule that has some mentions of Load Balance. Maybe something there is relevant or of use if you haven't seen it already.

Smart Connect Rule

Hello, i dont know if there is a thread like this but i need some help. Im trying to set Smart Connect Rules to this type: As i know 5 ghz have shorter range than 2.4 so i want to setup 5 ghz to some point (dbm range) and then to get 2.4 on all devices that support both 2.4 and 5 ghz.... i...

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[Igs]

Thanks. Not much info in threre, unfortunately.

 

[OzarkEdge]

Yepp. I'm aware of this. But what the Load Balancing does? It is there, under SC settings .Not all Asus routers have this option. RT-AX86U Pro have it.

I see it now, sorry... I wonder how long that's been there.

No one ever discusses it here. There are only a few load balance related settings... you could experiment easy enough. I would expect no response, if the load is not worth balancing... otherwise, clients may need to be reconnected and/or roamed to trigger a reconnection to see a response(?).

OE

 

[Igs]

Ok. I finally see what it is doing. It tries (if SC is enabled) to connect some clients to 2.4GHz, while others to 5GHz regardless the signal strength. Sure, there are some criteria how it makes that choices, but no info about it from Asus.