Hi all, I’ve been searching some info in your forum but I cannot find nothing related to the max clients an AP MikroTik can support.
I’m testing the MikroTiks performance and I noticed that we cannot connect more than 20 clients per Interface.
We are using rb133 and R52H cards, we make a script to generate some traffic in the clients (Linux clients), but after the 19th client, we cannot connect other.
The AP is cfg to be ap-bridge, we monitor the MikroTik performance and seems to be ok.
The script generates some high link utilization, downloading some web pages, makes some pings, etc.
Any of you have some experience connecting more than 20 clients to a MikroTik AP??
Correct me if i’m wrong, but if you’re using usermanager with a level 4 license, the maximum users you can have concurrently logged in is 20 - if i’m correct you can remove this limit by upgrading your usermanager box to a level 6 license.
No, I’m using Routerboard rb133 with a wireless card R52H, do you know how many clients can connect to this AP?
Do you have any experience with more than 20 clients?
I didn’t see any question regarding the usermanager. The question was how many clients can be connect to an interface. This is independent from the usermanager.
jwcn, have you been tested this hardware?, what do you suggest? we have a lot installed and change them will be a very big problem.
The MikroTiks are running as ap-bridge, so, we don’t see any overload in the CPU or Memory through SNMP (CPU 30 max).
Hi, i think beetween 40-50 is a good number to connect, first you need to know if the number of aps are going to be connected 24hrs a day or some will connect on day and others on night! But simultaneously connected i think 40 to 50 aps is a good range to work wothout loss of quality. One more thing, with this much of clients on a interface, if you have much P2P traffic it will totaly kill your link, you will experience loss of quality and packets along, but just for ftp, port 80 and stuff like that i dont experience any problem!!!
I have used 133 as AP’s on some small repeaters. Even with less than 10 clients I noticed depredation. There is just not much power there. Also, when RAM runs low you can get very unpredictable results. I eventually upgraded all to 333/433/411A boards.
4 wireless interface,802.11a and 802.11g.Using Channel 6,7,13 and 14.We have 40-50 client per interface,using 3 Obeslik 120*Sectoral Antenna,Maximum CPU usage 30% when 85% User connected.we deployed 97 APs and 106 wireless workstations.point to multipoint,7 Km Radius,
ROS 2.9.38 768 MB Ram,P4 2GHz with Intel Motherboard.No WDS.Simple transparent bridge.Linux as a radius Server for authentication and proxing.Bandwidth Range 64 - 256 kbps.Card can work with 2007 clients (theoretically), but in real networks for good quality it is recommended to have 25-40.Because in ideal conditions you can get 30-35 Mbps half-duplex, divide it to 100 clients (each client won’t get too much bandwidth).
80% Client Link Quality 65%
65% Client Link Quality 72%
50% Client Link Quality 76% -80%
40%-10% Client Link Quality excellent
We didn’t face any major problem except using PPPoE.
