Hi Adrian, thanks for the response. That's bad news.
I thought about using the Pi's as they have much more RAM and CPU power than normal consumer access points have - which seems to be the limiting factor of clients on those devices. And as we are a non profit organization we simply can't afford business class access points (Cisco etc.) as they are way to expensive. David Am 08.07.13 22:07, schrieb Adrian Chadd: > The ath9k_htc stuff isn't ready to do what you want. And even if it > was, the performance would be sub-par compared to the SoC designs. > There's just not a lot of RAM on these things; even if we do > eventually push almost everything into the driver instead of firmware, > there's still only a limited amount of RAM for packet buffers. So > you're never going to reach the same level of performance as > direct-attach. > > I suggest you spend the money on some slightly more useful access > points. You'll likely be able to serve at least 2x the clients on a > single 2x2 tplink or dlink access point for about $50-$70 each. > > Good luck, > > > -adrian > (Why does everyone see "Raspberry pi" as the solution to everything > these days? Sheesh..) > > > On 8 July 2013 01:35, David Jardin <i...@djardin.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm organizing all the technical stuff for several conferences about >> Joomla (opensource content managment system) with 200-300 participants >> and therefore I was looking for a low-budget wifi-solution that is able >> to handle this number of clients. I decided to use a few raspberry pi's >> with atheros-based usb wifi dongles which worked great in my little test >> environment but crashed in the real conference setup. >> >> I took a look at the logfiles and it seems that the issue is related to >> the number of clients that can be handled by the driver/firmware, which >> is 8 (ATH9K_HTC_MAX_STA). Is there any chance to increase this limit to >> make the dongles usable in large-scale applications? >> >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> ath9k-devel mailing list >> ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org >> https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
