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How many clients on CAP XL AC?

Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:01 am

The question is simple..

I need to cover areas with a lot of people.. conference hall, restaurant, swimming pool.. I mean, hundreds.

A single CAP XL AC, how many clients is able to carry?

I know it's even a matter of throughput so I say I could give 10Mb/1Mb limits via captive to each connected client. This means that I have an ideal 30 clients x 10Mb each = 300Mb tput at 2,4ghz + 86 clients x 10Mb each = 860Mb tput at 5Ghz = 116 max clients at 10Mb.
But an XL is able to handle over 100 simultaneous connections?

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Re: How many clients on CAP XL AC?

Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:59 am

I would recommend max 30 clients per radio. As the cAP XL ac has two radios that would lead to max 60 simultaneous clients.
 
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Re: How many clients on CAP XL AC?

Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:28 pm

The question is simple..

I need to cover areas with a lot of people.. conference hall, restaurant, swimming pool.. I mean, hundreds.

A single CAP XL AC, how many clients is able to carry?

I know it's even a matter of throughput so I say I could give 10Mb/1Mb limits via captive to each connected client. This means that I have an ideal 30 clients x 10Mb each = 300Mb tput at 2,4ghz + 86 clients x 10Mb each = 860Mb tput at 5Ghz = 116 max clients at 10Mb.
But an XL is able to handle over 100 simultaneous connections?

thanks
Max real throughput you will get on 2.4ghz is around 100mbit best case, and around 300mbit MAX on 5ghz even for single connected client in best case, not to mention 20+ of them expect even lower figures..

100 connections wont work much usable on any Mikrotik WIFI that exists.You need more radios/APs for this.
 
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Re: How many clients on CAP XL AC?

Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:38 pm

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Re: How many clients on CAP XL AC?

Fri Oct 15, 2021 2:32 pm

High density deployment... absolutely the wrong choice.
 
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Re: How many clients on CAP XL AC?

Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:16 pm

The question is really silly because it does not take into account, for example,
that not all devices have 2 or more streams, ac radios, high gain antennas and high efficiency radios.

On average they only have 2GHz and they all interfere with each other, plus they hurt if they move away due to the tiny antennas in the devices.

This is just a calculation of those who have no experience in this regard ...
 
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Re: How many clients on CAP XL AC?

Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:56 pm

Rule of thumb, plan for 15 users per AP. Unless the AP is designed specifically for volume.
However, you may need to inject some management such as limiting throughput per users to discourage downloading hogs.

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