Max Clients, Load Balance on Aironet 1231? I have 200 PDA's!

This is known generically as "roaming"

start with Cisco docs:

Event though this is a pure load balance issue? Right now, with more than 100 clients connected to one AP, it starts to drop them, even though there is another AP with the same SSID just waiting for them to connect. They don't jump over. They only jump over when there is a loss of connectivity (power failure).

AFAIK the APs do not perform load balancing. This would require that an AP be able to instruct a clent to associate with a different AP.

What about doing a WDS setup, then writing a TDS(TDL) Script to force boot clients when one AP reaches 100 connections?

~ AFAIK the APs do not perform load balancing. This would require that ~ an AP be able to instruct a clent to associate with a different AP.

AP reports its load in its beacons/probe responses, so hopefully the clients would be smart enough to go to the less loaded AP, if they are getting good signal from it.

With LWAPP APs, we can kick off clients from the AP that we don't want them on in hopes that they will roam to a less loaded AP ("Aggressive Load Balancing".) This may or may not work well with all clients.

With CCXv5, we can send a client a directed roam.

Aaron