Max Wi-Fi connections question

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

It depends... At some point your wireless becomes wired, and so the maximum
amount of throughput is going to depend on that infrastructure and your WAN
link.  On the wireless side, it depends on the number and types of clients
and also the type of traffic (VOIP, video, data etc.)  Suffice to say that
higher density in Access Points to clients will result in better
performance (especially considering proximity).  Translation: one access
point per classroom would work well.  If each room can't be serviced by an
Ethernet drop, then it's probably best to get the wiring put in so that you
CAN have an access point in each room.  It also depends on the network
gear.  If you take a consumer grade, restricted, poorly managed device into
a setting where you're connecting a bunch of users to it every day then
you're asking for trouble.    Anyway, I'm not a network engineer so
somebody else can give you more specific guidance but you certainly can
create a WiFi network supporting 100's of users.  How you do it is pretty
variable.

Greg

Greg Rundlett
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http://freephile.org


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Ed lawson <elawson at grizzy.com> wrote:

>
> I'm sure someone in the group has a real world answer to this
> question.  My local school is seeking to have Wi-Fi in every classroom
> with each classroom having up to 30 devices using the network
> simultaneously.  I questioned this and was told the appropriate
> commercial grade router is capable of maintaining simultaneous
> connections with 120 devices and throughput is fine.  This sounds a bit
> optimistic to me, but I'm older than gray hair and hardware was never
> something I knew much about.
>
> Part of my suspicion is based on the school equating an advanced
> computer class with a class where students can learn to use a 3-D
> printer. While that is a neat thing to do, not sure why that is an
> advanced computer class.
>
> Thank you in advance.
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