Usteer example config

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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Hi,

As DAWN has issues in my setup I like to try usteer. At first it looks more stable than DAWN but I cannot find much info how to setup it. I done the config got from OpenWRT wiki but perhaps somebody can share his usteer config with band steering and roaming support between APs for comparison.

Cheers,
Nils

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Default one sends reports to lan network broadcast and handles all same-named AP-s across all nodes every 2 minutes.
If you want to change that you can use luci app or config/usteer lan network is in file beginning wifis are at the end, and micro-tuning parameters all across file.

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Hi. According the page [OpenWrt Wiki] Setting up usteer and band-steering in OpenWrt the following has to be set:

Config gotchas

  • For AP steering to take effect, signal_diff_threshold needs to be set to a value greater than 0.
  • band_steering_threshold does not take effect unless load_balancing_threshold is also set to a value greater than 0.
  • roam_scan_snr needs to be set to trigger client scans for roaming.
  • If roam_scan_snr is unset and roam_trigger_snr is set, then roam_scan_snr will take the value of roam_trigger_snr.

But I like to know if there are best practices or what are preferred settings for this parameters.

Regards,
Nils

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But it does roam kicks with defaults...