how many clients connect to ap at once?

[Matthew G Brown]

But remembering that Quality of service reduces these numbers quite
substantially.

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To: "'Darryl Smith'" <Darryl at radio-active.net.au>;
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Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:58 AM
Subject: RE: how many clients connect to ap at once?


> Darryl
>
> This depends on how the AP was designed, for example Cisco and our 180mW
> AP
> use higher end processors and can pass traffic for more clients. With
> our ReliaWave AP OS that includes MAC layer bandwidth management and can
> run on a higher end x86 processor the hard limit is 2048 MACs. For
> indoor use 200-300 clients is not out of the question, for outdoors
> about 128 would be the max I would want to do.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Darryl Smith
> > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:14 PM
> > To: wireless at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: RE: how many clients connect to ap at once?
> >
> >
> > This brings up another interesting question...
> >
> > How many clients can connect to an access point period. I
> > believe that they have done some tests at Dartmouth College
> > in the USA on this and found that the number was quite high
> > with some access points. I have this thought in the back of
> > my mind that they may not be too high for the cheaper units -
> > and that this is one area where higher price gives more... As
> > for numbers I am not quite sure
> >
> > Darryl
> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org] On > Behalf Of Joel
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 9:22 PM
> > To: wireless at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: how many clients connect to ap at once?
> >
> >
> > Hi friend,
> > I want to know if i make a access point on redhat
> > linux 7.3 using prism2 card then how many clients can
> > connect to my access point at once.
> > is there any limit????
> >
> > Thank,
> > Joel
> >
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