Hello, everyone.
I want to set up a wireless network with 6 SSIDs and 6 vlans, by the way the 6 SSIDs must support 2.4Ghz. Any ideas about which hardware to choose for this purpose?
Best regards.
I probably would choose for cAP ac: https://mikrotik.com/product/cap_ac
But it depends on a lot more than being able to broadcast 6 SSID’s (this gives overhead…sure you need 6?).
How many concurrent users per radio?
What are the performance requirements?
Hey, erlinden, thanks for your answer.
The network should have capacity for 30 clients and 10Mbps of bandwidth for each client in the first SSID, and about 5 clients and 2Mbps per client in the remaining 5 SSIDs.
If a device says it has 3 chains, does that mean that I can assign an SSID (virtual AP) to each chain?
Talking about the bandwidth and the number of users virtually any device from the current Mikrotik product line should fit (even the cheapest one). However 55 users also means you may need more than one device to cover the area where these 55 users reside.
No. For a single radio all chains are always shared among all SSIDs.
You really don’t want to have 6 SSIDs on a single radio, especially if you want many clients connected. Having them all on a single channel and single radio will create total mess.
If you are covering some big hall or multiple rooms, it’s always better to have multiple APs scattered over the place instead of a single one.
But if you really want them all in one spot, in the past I would recommend RB800 + 4x miniPCI (or even RB800+RB604+6x miniPCI, one radio for every channel, for example 3x 2.4GHz + 3x 5GHz).
But good luck finding this hardware anymore for a decent price, it have been mostly discontinued…
It’s probably better to get something like 3x hAP ac² that each have two radios and each can run two separate APs on two bands. You get 3 non-overlapping 2.4GHz APs and 3 5GHz APs.
If you only want to cover 2.4GHz then you can get cheap cAPs and run 2 SSIDs/device (again 3 non-overlapping 20MHz channels), that’s still OK.