Hello, please I need to permit connection to my wireless network only to clients with signal strength higher than a certain value.
I seen that if I have for example 10 connected clients with signal strength around -65/-70 with a tx/rx ccq of 90/90, and a new client connects with a signal of -92 and a tx/rx ccq of 10/10, the overall wireless interface tx ccq drops from 90% to around 45% and this sometimes causes some clients to disconnect.
In wireless interface I seen the parameter Noise Floor Threshold but I read in the forum that it functions only on old wireless card types, in fact I put the value of -80 in it but nothing changed, the client with signal of -90 continues to connect.
I seen also that the access list has the option to specify what signal range the specific mac address should have to properly connect; unfortunately to do so, I have to uncheck the DEFAULT AUTHENTICATE property in the wireless interface; since on that interface is present a hotspot, I need that EVERY potential customer should connect, I setup a walled garden host address so he can register himself to access our services.
Please is there another way to set this signal threshold on wireless interface?
Many thanks
Regards
Alessandro
The difference between Default-authentication=yes/no
- yes, default action of access-list is accept;
- no, default action of access-list is drop;
Add rule to access-list with allowed signal-strength range without any MAC-addresses and authenticate=yes, then it should work.
Only clients with appropriate signal-range will connect. If you will have no for default-authentication.