What is Roaming, how does it work and how can I customize roaming behavior?
As a client device moves throughout a facility, it will tend to move in and out of the range of the access points that make up the network infrastructure. In order to maintain constant connectivity and stable performance, a moving client device will disassociate from one access point and then reassociate to another access point that provides for better connectivity. Roaming is the term applied to this action. The “decision” to initiate a roam is based on a number of conditions and parameters. With Summit software release 1.02.20 and later, Summit provides two complementary sets of roaming algorithms to provide for more reliable connectivity. Those sets of algorithms are: Standard, which manages roaming behavior under typical conditions. Users can adjust Standard Roaming parameters to customize roaming behavior for a particular environment. Aggressive, which manages roaming behavior when the client device is in areas of particularly low coverage and is in imminent jeopardy of losing its
