I have a large Hotel Porject I am submitting an estimate for, I have used the RB CrossRoads in WDS-mesh on some of my past clients, usually at the most they have required 5 to 7 AP’s in dynamic WDS, this has worked beautiful but now I am facing a large hotel that would require roughly 15-20 AP’s and I was wondering if this setup will still work in WDS-mesh or if I should design this differently? what kind of bandwidth limitations will i face with more AP’s in this config?
Since all WDS nodes transmit on the same freq. the limiting factor is how many radios are within reach. To answer you question: it depends on the floor plan, AP location and antenna type.
If 5-7 AP’s works for you, one probable solution would be to split them into 3 group. You would wire 3 main AP’s and have 3 AP groups connect to it. You could also used 3 separate frequency for each group.