Our team designed our system to accommodate large numbers of people in one area by installing a greater density of AP's, lowering the AP transmit power, turning off the slower B transmit rates, and encouraging users to utilize 5Ghz N.
Thanks, Greg Gardner Manager, Network Communications Information and Technology Services Rochester Institute of Technology [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John York Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Large numbers of clients in one room Hi We have a small installation with about 40 Cisco lwap's (b/g) running on a Cisco 4402. I've just gotten a request from a group that wants to run 50+ clients in one room. The last time we tried that about 4 years ago, it was a disaster. We had fat AP's at the time. There were a lot of Mac's, and they kept grabbing each other instead of the AP's. Ugh. How do folks handle this now? With my current system can I just throw a couple more AP's in the room and let them have at it? Thanks John John York Blue Ridge Community College, VA ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
