Hameed you can able to connect 50 users with the netgear and tplink also. I already tried with this in our college.
One more thing you didn't mention the model of yours. On Jul 20, 2013 3:22 PM, "Balasubramaniam Natarajan" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Shaahul Hameed <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I had a couple of questions: > > > > 1. Is there a limit on the number of wifi users supported by a > wireless > > router? > > 2. If yes, can you suggest a router that can support 50 concurrent > wifi > > users? > > > > We are using Belkin and Netgear routers, but are facing issues when too > > many people connect. > > > > > Hameed I don't think there should be a problem in getting them connected > however if you are using 802.11g the max throughput theoretically would be > 54Mbps, practically ~40Mbps =~ 5MegaBytes/second of data transfer if a > single user gets connected. So if you were to connect 10 users they may > get a maximum of ~512Kbps each which may be good enough only for browsing. > > The maximum you can do is co-locating (i.e) have three WiFi router working > on Non-overlapping channels of 1,6 and 11 to increase the number of users > to 30 and still have a decent speed of connection. > > If you have 802.11n supportable AccessPoint then a single AccessPoint can > support upto 150 - 300 Mbps which would be really good to support 30 users > with single AP with ~ 512KBPS, however the down side is you would need all > your clients to support 802.11n (Hardware related not software) as well. > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
