First, I don't think 50 users in a room is much to worry about for any
pair of modern access points. Unless the users are all going to be
high throughput users. For large open lecture halls being setup with
the highest throughput in mind my recommendation regardless of
equipment would be:
1. 3 channel(1,6,11) layout only with 2.4Ghz radios NO 4
channel(1,4,8,11) layout in open spaces
2. Ceiling mount antennas and use directional patch antennas NOT omni-
directional antennas
3. Turn power down and don't be too worried about RF absorption, since
it will actually help focus your client radios onto the best access
point.
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Ken LeCompte - Telecommunications Analyst
Rutgers University Office of Information Technology
Campus Computing Services - Central Systems and Services
Office ~ (732) 445-4823
On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:05 AM, John York wrote:
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
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