I think what jeremy is saying is whilst you could have 30 devices
associated with an AP your not going to be able to push much data
through the rather congested airspace.
If its for education/charity cisco has some donation programs, you can
get 1140AP's for the same ballpark as consumer stuff.
NFI if they will handle that many clients but if anything common is
going to ;->
On 11/01/2011 11:26 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
The problem, unfortunately is:
* Supporting 30+ connections on a single AP is doable;
* .. and the commercial APs do it;
* .. but that source isn't open source.
So in short, you can likely support 30+ clients associating to an Atheros based
device (but there's limitations on hardware encryption keycache slots and I
haven't ever tested Linux/FreeBSD to see how they cope if you associate more
than the available keycache slots) but without the { hacks, clever things } done
by commercial firmware, it's going to be hit and miss.
If you'd like to _write_ those hacks, I'll tell you what they are and help you
write them for contribution back to Linux/FreeBSD. (As figured out by yours
truely,
not by any kind of reverse engineering or via NDAs.)
Adrian
(Yes, I hack on 802.11 stack stuff and Atheros driver source these days.)
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