I doubt DDWRT would have done better. A friend of mine is running DDWRT downtown right now for a comicon venue, and it keeps loosing wireless, with the need to reboot it to bring back functionality. We've not diagnosed it, but I bet it is suffering from the same thing Fanady's router suffered from.
Joe LaGreca Founder & Owner, BIG Net Online (619) 393-1733 x200 Office (619) 318-3246 Cell (Voice ONLY) (858) 876-2942 (SMS ONLY) www.BIGnetOnline.com On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Steve Shapery <[email protected]> wrote: > There’s a similar issue with the first generation of LWAPP access points > from Cisco – they took the same concept that the legacy home equipment had, > and only allocated enough room in memory to keep track of 32 MAC addresses > simultaneously. > > > > I’d wager that if you had a DDWRT device, it would have been okay… > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Fanady > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:26 AM > To: SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > Subject: [SCFN] The difference between consumer grade AP's and Enterprise > grade > > > > Just an interesting tidbit. I was asked to help out with the soccer game at > Qualcomm Stadium last night. They had a special area on the field for the > photographers and wanted to be able to have the photographers connected to > the net to upload their pictures to their respective news agencies without > leaving the field. Just off the tunnel that the players come out is the > "media room" where we have just a little Netgear wireless router/access > point for the photographers to use during Chargers games, so I just grabbed > that, ran 280 ft of CAT-5 out to the field plunked down the Netgear, and set > it to WPA2 encryption. I tested it thoroughly the day before the game. The > next day, a few minutes after the game started, I got called down to the > field because the wireless wasn't working. Everyone was associated with the > SSID, but it wouldn't pass any traffic. So I power cycled it, and went back > upstairs, and was called back down within minutes. With all the fans in > attendance, many of them with wireless enabled smartphones, keeping track of > all the wifi in the air must have been too much for the little Netgear, the > thing couldn't pass traffic for more than 5 minutes between reboots. > > > > So, plan B, went up to the media booths which weren't really being used for > this game, and snagged a crusty old Cisco Aironet 1121B (yes, 802.11b) and > put it in place of the Netgear on the field, even left it unsecured as I > didn't have time to much about with it. Long story short, not a peep out of > it the rest of the game. > > > > I had been told many years ago, that what happens is the mac table of the > cheaper wifi gear gets full trying to keep track of all the mac addresses it > sees flying around the air, but I haven't confirmed this. Long story short, > an old crusty Aironet is better than a fancy new consumer grade AP for large > events any day of the year. > > > > -M@ > > _______________________________________________ > SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > To unsubscribe, please visit: > http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org > _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
