On Sat, 11 May 2019, Jan Newmarch wrote:
* looking at e.g. the LIFX forum ("Maximum/many bulbs on a single network"), reports are that most home routers fail at handling more than 30 nodes on a single SSID, and other reports are that 30 nodes per home will the _average_ number within a year or two in Australia at least. Multiple (or expensive) routers seem to be the only solution anyway.
I've heard reports of HGWs that start to have problems when they're seeing more than ~30 simultaneous IPv4 devices connected to it, and it doesn't matter if they're wired or wifi. This is of course an implementation problem and not an architecture problem.
The home multiple router problem deployment cases I've seen so far (apart from the ones already mentioned) is to support IOT gateways. I've also personally deployed it to create separate L2 domains because I had unwanted STP interaction between some of my L2 switches and a virtualisation server running Linux bridging. The last one I guess isn't representative for most people, but I still see the need for intentional L2 separation (also to support completely different L1/L2 technologies) as a driver to have multiple routers within the home.
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