On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > > Yes - APs often have a limit. The limit is not defined by any > > kind of specification. It depends on the AP. > > I think I recall that brief testing with a bunch of consumer access > points at OLPC showed that this number was usually above 15 clients > and below 30 clients, per AP, at 54Mbps. > > For hosting hundreds of devices, you should look into getting many > access points that each have three omni-directional antennas working > on non-overlapping channels. The PyCon wifi team does a write-up > about their setup each year, which seems to contain more information > than anyone could need: > > http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/pycon2007-network/ > http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/pycon2008-network/ > http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/pycon2009-network/
I've read through these, and they have a lot of useful info. I do have good RF experiance (and even some halfway decent tools for looking at things), but I didn't know what, if any limits there were on the number of clients other than what can be supported by the available airtime. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
