depends on the AP model and how big the room is, you'll have a nice fat
problem with channel interference since you're in the b/g range, but
each ap (as long as it's not terribly ancient) should handle 10-20
clients before starting to reject connections or suffer unusable
performance.
it also depends on what they're trying to do in the classroom, stream
video? or access webpages?
for basic coverage i would go with at 4 ap's and attempt to position
them to cover the quadrants of the room if it's small, so at worst you
have a 4 channel plan that you may have to set manually. oh and mac's
shouldn't try to associate with each other, unless someone has
connection sharing or ad-hoc mode configured, which in that case, is
simple misconfiguration of the wireless client.
-Justin Hao
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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Texas A&M University
Networking and Information Security
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