Ladies/gentlemen, Morning.
Let’s say a administrator troubleshoots his network and find out that when more people are connected on a AP, its bandwidth drops and those people get slow internet connection.
What is the best move he can play against this issue.
Waiting enthusiastically for your brilliant answers.
Thanks.
Get an AP with airtime fairness??
Assign queues… to share available bandwidth
More APs with smaller channel widths.
But if I am relying on the wifi, I go with a different vendor. Other manufactures might cost a bit more… But the lack of complaints is worth it!
I saw your answers.
airtime fairness, I see.
With more APs, one cannot prevent having too much users connected on one access point. (only one central DHCP runs)
What about using APs with latest standards integrating technology that improve wifi ? 802.11ax for exemple.
Other WiFi systems can limit number of clients. I have seen flexible limits such as
Max per wlan (ssid)
Max per wlan per ap
Max per radio per wlan
If you need this type of control, these and other features should drive your product selection.
Chasing latest wifi technology can get expensive and unless all the links in your wifi chain have the technology its wasted.
Something like the TPLInk eap245 is solid now. I use it and recommend it. Coupled with an MT router you cant go wrong.
RB4011 is a popular choice unless on a budget and pick your hex poison.
I see.
Can this TPLInk eap245 AP bear around 60 users, in practice ?
the main issue in the case above, is the more users we have on the AP the more quality of connection decrease.
(anyone have to be able to connect to AP with no restriction.)
60 users may be pushing your luck for any consumer wifi and even lower end business wifi on a single device…
If you cannot nail down or communicate your requirements properly, thats on you…
How many rooms, one big warehouse, how many floors …etc…
In covid times putting 60 people in the same space is insane anyway 
So little information. Very difficult to have some good hints that are relevant for this unknown request.
We already learn that it’s about 60 connections. 60 connections to one AP? They can not be all close to the AP.
All clients in one band ? e.g. all in 2.4 GHz, or can you split them up and move most to 5 GHz?
How free is the wifi spectrum? Other devices detected?
Adding some AP’s in the interference range (= more than 4x the usable range) around the AP but staying in the same channel does not help much. (Clients may have better signal and listen/talk faster). You can limit the number of stations (Max. station count) in ROS, but all will be in one interfering channel and waiting for each other.
What is the max PHY rate of your connection? 20 MHz wide channel , 2x2 stream clients, higher than -60dBm signal … gives 144Mbps interface rate. This is 70 Mbps data rate at its best.
60 devices, is 1 Mbps/ device, if all are in that strong range.
But some clients are further away, may be single stream, what is their data rate? 36 Mbps , 6 Mbps ??? They’ll eat a larger part of the available air-time.
But there is also an overall capacity decrease when there are 60 clients (see Chapter T4 and other in https://howwirelessworks.com/wp-content/uploads/Aruba_VHD_VRD_Theory_Guide.pdf )
It’s a High density environment. Yes, around 60 connected in one APs, all in 2.4 Ghz. Not all device support 5 Ghz.
Maybe it’s not a matter of bandwidth, but processing 60 users. Because when only one connected on AP, connection is okay.
setting 40MHz or 20MHz, give same latency.
Other devices detected, but I set (1 or 6 or 11) channel to avoid interferences.
Does AP exists that can proccess that much clients without slowness ?
Please let me know what kind of environment permits only one AP, for approx 60 devices, and only 2.4ghz is allowed.
Unless we know, I dont believe you.