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
