Smart Steering per AP settings requirement

malakudi

I have at home (basement, ground floor and 1st floor) four (4) APs and three (3) switches, all configured with Nebula.

APS are NWA210BE, NWA90BE Pro and two NWA90AX
Switches are XS1930-10, XGS1930-28 and XGS1930-28HP

I really need the Smart Steering option to configure it with different levels on at least one of my APs. I want -75db for 2.4ghz network as default but for only one AP to have that to -85db. The reason to have -75db is to make each client go to the nearest AP. But I have a client (esp32 device) in a place in basement that hardly achieves -83, -84 signal.

I understand the feature I want needs Nebula Pro license. But if I understand correctly, in order to use it I have to pay the license for all my seven (7) devices! I only need it in one AP. Can this somehow work?

Another way to work this out would be to never send deauth to client that is associated on a SSID that only exists on a single AP (with tagging). Maybe this is possible?

malakudi

The "another way" I have tried and doesn't work. SSID that only works in single AP is not excluded from Smart Steering. Maybe you should look into this, it is an interesting feature.

saltet

i have also a three level house built mainly in concrete.
’i have the same problem as you.
’make sure that you set up is that the ap broadcast at the highest dB

Even made this the dB are att a level above 80 in the basement between the connecting ap and basement.

For my use this work fine bur the need of high speed in the basement are low.

Unfortunately the smart steering is only with pro license.

malakudi

Well if there is no solution for that I will remove devices from Nebula. I am not going to pay 40*7=280 euro per year just for this setting. There has to be another work-around. I have paid almost three thousands of euros for my equipment to Zyxel.