Hello,
I have the router RB751U-2HnD. I want give free wifi to my customer in my restaurant.
How many concurrent wireless users can support?
Regards.
Wireless / advanced
max-station-count : (integer [1..2007]; Default: 2007) - Maximum number of associated clients
max-station-count is one thing, another is - how many clients can connect, and AP would still be usable.
Usual answer is around 40 clients, and then you can test and see if adding more clients does not degrade experience for users. If usage is decent you could go up to 50 or even 60 authenticated users.
Thanks janisk!!!
Can you recommend another model router for 100 connections for example?
Regards.
this is more of a recommendation for 1 wifi interface. for 100 concurrent users it is advised to use 2 wifi interfaces. So any router from routerboard.com with 2 interfaces could handle this.
Thanks janisk!!
I’m a newbie, can you recommend a product exact? any Integrated solution??
Can you explain me some idea please.
Regards.
If you want to support up to 100 users and have something usable, you’ll probably want to set up 3 access points throughout the building. Personally, I’d do more, but using more than 3 APs in close quarters can cause problems that you may not want to cope with.
For a MT solution, I’d get the RB750UP, and use that to connect and power up 3 of the RB951-2n access points on channels 1, 6, and 11, which will keep the self-interference to a minimum.
Next, these radios can run pretty hot. You want enough signal to cover the intended area, but not so much that you’re making more noise than signal. To tune them, you can use a stumbler app on your phone, or just use MT’s built-in scanning utility. I’d start with a tx-power of about 10db and work up or down from there.
-Troy
Consider adding a 5GHz AP to your existing 2GHz setup … more and more gadgets (phones, tablets, laptops, …) also support 5ghz wireless band and it will take off load from crowded 2GHz band.
JF
Thanks for info!!!
Regards.
so did you deploy the WiFi??
how many con-current connections are you having? and which boards? how is the performance?
BaseBox2 can provide 50-60 concurrent user?
When you want to support that many users, get a model that does 2 and 5 GHz. It really helps a lot.
Our 90% users devices support 2,4GHz frequency…
and can you recommended other device from Mikrotik for 60 concurrent user?
We are calculating around 30 wireless clients for wifi device for best results. We are also using Capsman with very good results. In your specific case I can recommend 3 or max 4, cap ac (RBcAPGi-5acD2nD) used with capsman from your router. This way you’ll use 2.4G for 90% of your users now and 5G will be used when more devices go 5G.
Of course, I planning use CAPsMAN. Our router is CCR1036
You testing RBcAPGi-5acD2nD for 60 users?
What do you think about BaseBox2?
Are all 60 users connected with 2.4GHz? => Use more than 1 access point
I cannot recommend cAP ac for situations with a lot of clients (30-50) any longer. CAPSMAN won´t help you. Something is wrong with cAP ac. wAP ac is more mature. Take a look at something else if you want 802.11ac wave 2 access points, e.g. Grandstream GWN7630 (90$):
- MediaTek MT7615 chipset, no Broadcom IPQ4018/4019 like in cAP ac
- 2.4GHz 4x4
- 5 GHz 4x4 with MU-MIMO
- PoE+
- Band Steering
- Dynamic VLAN Assignment with RADIUS Server and Wireless
- Inbuilt controller for 50 access points, something like Aruba´s instant
- they promise 200+ clients
- IEEE 802.11k/r/v roaming
(Beware those are still “cheap” access points, only. Not like any MikroTik RB which are full router.)
Other companies have solutions to move devices that do support 5GHz but still connect to 2.4GHz up to 5GHz, so 2.4GHz is really used only by devices that need it. But there is nothing like this in Mikrotik ROS. It have been requested many times over and over, actual algorithms were presented for YEARS, but still this critical function is not available in ROS, developers just ignore us. So you have to use many more APs than required and have to deal with crowded 2.4GHz channels used by most clients. And you can’t change beacon interval on ROS either, so only way to make 5GHz look better for clients is to drop 2.4GHz power way down, but that makes it often too weak as there’s a lot of interference on 2.4GHz. Mikrotik WIFI is just far behind the competition and it’s really sad to see this happen to a brand that was once on the leading edge… but that’s the reality. They are now playing the cheapest card, but that’s really bad position to be in…
That is true, and it was also the reason I did not select MikroTik for the company WiFi network, but it should be said that all those “clever” solutions for steering the clients etc in practice all have to be turned off because the invariably cause problems with a small group of users.
I think they are only usable in a controlled environment where you can test clients for compatibility and decide not to buy devices that are incompatible.
In a large BYOD network like we have at work (~2400 users) and where users are not coming by your desk “hey my device does not work well on your WiFi”, it really isn’t possible to play tricks like that.
Hi there any good news on 2021? I have a tp-link deco m4 and a mikrotik hap ac as main router and 3 Tp-link as ap but are very slow and freezing should I sell the tp link and mikrotik and buy ubiquity or maybe tp-link Omada?