Want to average clients in Access Point.

[SCPHUB]

Hello,
I have a question to ask for advice. I have installed 3 access points in the same room, but the number of clients is not distributed. It is divided into 40, 17, and 10. If I want the number of clients to be equal, how should I set it?

Regards,

[SupaStud1994]

If they are close together or relatively close your probably dealing with overlapping wireless radios. What I typically do is adjust the radio settings to help load balance devices. First off I usually enable band steering and client balancing in the wireless > radio settings > RF profiles. Then if you are still not getting the load balance you would like to see. you can adjust the radio transmit power range to help keep clients on one AP or another. Its a little bit of trial and error to get right based on the number of clients. I recently had an issue with a school where I spent the better part of a day trying to get 2 MR76s to balance right with about 150 clients. Word of advice don't change too many settings at once.  

[TBHPTL]

What you are really dealing with is that each client, the client alone,  decides to which AP that it joins. There is no central coordination for Wi-Fi, it doesn't exist today.  Each client is different. Each OEM has their own algorithm/ special sauce that is used to connect Wi-Fi. The AP has no say. It may make suggestions but the client makes the decision.

What you can do is define what you want the network to do and then pick your most important least capable client and build your AP design around that devices abilities or lack of abilities.

Trust the RRM unless you want to be endless tweaking each and every AP constantly.

[PhilipDAth]

Trying using these [fairly safe] settings in a wireless profile and applying it to the access points.

https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Radio_Settings/RF_Profiles

Also note - the load could be well balanced.  If you had 40 people connected but doing nothing, and 10 people watching YouTube - this could be the optimal spread of users.

[PhilipDAth]

If you haven't got it enabled - trying enabling AI channel planning as well.