Hi Adrian,
thanks for the response. That's bad news.
I thought about using the Pi's as they have much more RAM and CPU power
than normal consumer access points have - which seems to be the limiting
factor of clients on those devices. And as we are a non profit
organization we simply can't afford business class access points (Cisco
etc.) as they are way to expensive.
David
Am 08.07.13 22:07, schrieb Adrian Chadd:
The ath9k_htc stuff isn't ready to do what you want. And even if it
was, the performance would be sub-par compared to the SoC designs.
There's just not a lot of RAM on these things; even if we do
eventually push almost everything into the driver instead of firmware,
there's still only a limited amount of RAM for packet buffers. So
you're never going to reach the same level of performance as
direct-attach.
I suggest you spend the money on some slightly more useful access
points. You'll likely be able to serve at least 2x the clients on a
single 2x2 tplink or dlink access point for about $50-$70 each.
Good luck,
-adrian
(Why does everyone see Raspberry pi as the solution to everything
these days? Sheesh..)
On 8 July 2013 01:35, David Jardin i...@djardin.de wrote:
Hi,
I'm organizing all the technical stuff for several conferences about
Joomla (opensource content managment system) with 200-300 participants
and therefore I was looking for a low-budget wifi-solution that is able
to handle this number of clients. I decided to use a few raspberry pi's
with atheros-based usb wifi dongles which worked great in my little test
environment but crashed in the real conference setup.
I took a look at the logfiles and it seems that the issue is related to
the number of clients that can be handled by the driver/firmware, which
is 8 (ATH9K_HTC_MAX_STA). Is there any chance to increase this limit to
make the dongles usable in large-scale applications?
David
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