Throw in the silly stuff like "Live Tiles" and "Facebook Feeds" or whatever they are called and your AP's get a little crowded. With 20 people in a room in a business setting you will be lucky to be under 50 devices trying to connect to the poor AP.
From there it is having the bandwidth to cover the demand. Make sure you have enough of an IP pool to cover as well. I had to take mine from to by the time I covered everything. I told the group that came in after me to raise it to at least If you figure each of your human users currently have devices each that will grab an IP your close.
I had to take mine from to by the tome I covered everything. For a run of the mill AP I always figure 20 to 25 devices. After 25 you start to have issues. As mentioned, there are AP's that can handle more, Rukus comes to mind.
Forgot one part, with some AP's, not sure about the Meraki ones, if you have a theoretical throughput of 54mbps G or mbps N or whatever, your dividing that throughput between your clients. I had a teacher try to get all of her class on at the same time during my first attempt and several got blocked off.
I looked at the AP load and there were 30 devices connected at 1mbps and nothing moved. After we got some kids to kill their phones it picked up and became usable, but we got crossover from another room! About 25 devices tops according to my experience. The problem is if you have a place where more people are, then you need to have more devices. We had four in the library of the college I worked at, and most of the time that was perfect. However, during final week , , ,. Also, get with Meraki, their tech support used to be super don't know what it looks like now that Cisco owns them.
One of the things they used to have was a place where you could look at your environment and it would who you usage, and let you know when you were reaching the tipping point. Alex - the performance issue was described to me I start with this company next week as low bandwidth on speed test from the devices that will more than triple as soon as you are cabled in. Jim - thanks I will keep the 5 devices per human in mind. They have no issue putting in more AP's but I need make sure the planning and placement is correct.
It was brought to my attention while I was onsite that they had an issue with their Meraki firewall in the past and had to contact support to find out the processor was being overloaded which they are unable view from the Meraki dashboard..
I am looking at the Live Demo dashboard for the AP's now, are there any clear indicators when you are maxing it out so to speak? Thanks again for your responses. Let me paint you a picture; scenario one — 40 laptops connected to one AP. Scenario two — 40 laptops connected to one AP. It is, except with scenario one the laptops are only accessing email.
With scenario two, the laptops are all streaming high definition videos from YouTube. Can you see where I am going with this? Those 40 devices streaming video are going to demand more bandwidth and more processing power from our access points. It is reasonable to assume then, I will be able to connect more clients to my AP performing basic tasks including email and web surfing compared to resource-intensive clients that want to stream video, download files, etc.
Another consideration is Quality of Experience QoE. This is the perceived quality that a user experiences when using a service.
You may be able to squeeze 50 simultaneous clients onto your access points making VoIP calls, but what about the quality of those calls? This is sometimes in an attempt to enforce a certain degree of QoE. It is important to realize the quality over quantity consideration. The question: What is the simultaneous connection limit of an access point?
By now you probably realize this is the wrong question to ask. From here, assess the specifications of the access point.
The chipsets for both may support simultaneous connections but the Most likely, it will also be loaded with newer hardware capable of running additional features and processing more information. Was this Helpful? Yes No. By continuing to use our website, you acknowledge the use of cookies. Cookie settings Privacy Policy X. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.
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