We have a wifi multicast application that needs to transmit multicast packet to a large number of associated clients. This multicast traffic will be the only traffic on the network.
We need to know how my devices (smart phones, mostly) can associate with a Mikrotik AP.
Many threads exist on this forum with a similar-sounding theme, but those posts are really looked for bandwidth limits. We have
no bandwidth limit. If we send multicast packets at 4 Mbits/second, the number of clients will have no effect on the router's performance.
What we are looking for is the maximum number of devices that can associate with the AP, without considering bandwidth issues.
I know there is an absolute upper limit of 2007, which is based on the number of bits available in the TIM field of the beacon frames. I am trying to find out if some other resource may limit this number further.
I'd like to see a number like 1000 clients, all quietly receiving my multicast packets.
I'm currently using RB52Hn and RB R2n radios. I asked ubiquiti this question, and their support folks were unable to answer it.