[AusNOG] Maximum users per AP

[Christopher Pollock]

Palo Alto Networks kit is supposedly very good at nailing down that stuff.
 Last I checked they could specifically block different functions of
facebook (chat, adding photos, etc).  Looks pretty neat, although I haven't
used it yet.

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Graeme Allen <gallen at mytelecom.com.au>wrote:

> On this topic, what are you going to use to restrict access to just
> Facebook (given that using IP addresses to pin "Facebook" down is pretty
> useless)?
>
> On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 16:28 +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
> > 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,
> >
> >
> >
> >         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.
> >
> >
> >
> >         Just wondering if anyone could advise what is the maximum
> >         users can a Cisco AP Wifi air-lap1142N can support.
> >
> >
> >
> >         And what is acceptable bandwidth to support 1000 users.
> >
> >
> >
> >         Thanks
> >
> >         QL
> >
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