ZyXEL Communications NWA-3160 User Manual

 Chapter 21 Load Balancing

NWA-3160 Series User’s Guide

The requirements for load balancing are fairly straight forward and should be 
met in order for a group of similar NWAs to take advantage of the feature:

• They should all be within the same subnet.
• They should all have the same SSID, radio mode, and security mode.
• There should be a minimum of 2 NWAs within the same broadcast radius, or at 

the very least within an overlapping broadcast radius.

Use this screen to configure the load balancing feature on the NWA. Click Load 
Balancing in the navigation menu. The following screen appears.

Figure 163   Load Balancing

The following table describes the labels in this screen 

Table 81   Load Balancing

Enable Load Balancing

Select this option to turn on wireless load balancing.

Mode

Use the option to choose the specific method by which you 
want to enable load balancing on your NWA.

By station number

Enter the maximum number of stations the NWA allows to 
connect to it. You can enter a value from 1-127.

By traffic level

Choose a load balancing traffic level. The traffic level you 
select here determines how much bandwidth the AP allows to 
pass through it before it becomes overloaded and starts 
delaying or rejecting connections. 

• Low - Up to 6 Mbps before it becomes overloaded.
• Medium - Up to 13 Mbps before it becomes overloaded.
• High - Up to 20 Mbps before it becomes overloaded.