[AusNOG] Maximum users per AP

[Martin Visser]

Qui,

As has been said by others, 40 maybe 50 is a good limit. Of course if you
can restrict what clients are doing with the service either through
bandwidth control, or by DNS or IP Address, you can probably go more. Even
then, Facebook chat or simple wall updates, are a whole lot different from
peeps uploading their 2MB photos or their 20MB videos to Facebook. Of
course if you have 1000 users in one area, then you will want those 20 or
so APs to managed by a controller - this will ensure more even usage of the
available bandwidth. Also having dual-radios (2.4 and 5G) in your APs will
help. Some of the wireless controllers (I know HP does) can steer
associations to one band or the other (HP does it by delaying the less
preferred one long enough).
Regards, Martin

MartinVisser99 at gmail.com


On 26 October 2012 13:10, Qui Le <QLe at sydneyoperahouse.com> wrote:

> Hi All,****
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> We have a request for providing wifi accesses to a large number of users
> say 1000 users mainly using social application such as , facebook , twitter
> etc.****
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> Just wondering if anyone could advise what is the maximum users can a
> Cisco AP Wifi air-lap1142N can support.****
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> And what is acceptable bandwidth to support 1000 users.****
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> Thanks****
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> QL****
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