We have a similar "permanent" requirement for this in one of our lecture halls. Our solution has been 3 Access points, on 3 non-overlapping channels (channel 1,6 and 11). Each AP handles about 15-18 users at about 2 Meg near continuous throughput per user on b/g if required. I looked at putting more APs in, and using directional aerials to shape the cells more, but all the planning I tried showed the reflected signal would be horrendous. You'll need to make sure the users coming in have set their laptops to connect to "Infrastructure" wireless access points only, with no ad-hoc networking enabled and broadcasting SSID beacons, otherwise you could have issues relating to the users connecting to each other, rather than the APs. Many Thanks Peter
Peter Methven. MBCS, BENG (Hons) Network Specialist Computer Centre (The Allen McTernan Building) Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS Telephone: +44 (0)131 4513516 / 07774 427548 Email [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John York Sent: 11 August 2009 16:05 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/. -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
