topic Re: Wireless Bridge Wired Client Numbers in Wireless

Wireless Bridge Wired Client Numbers

ablenner — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 16:42:57 GMT

For test purposes I have a wireless (not workgroup) bridge talking to an AP 1200 and I want to know how many wired clients the arrangement can support (I know the workgroup limit is 8).

Main network --- AP ==radio== WGB --- Hub --- 1 PC

In place of the one PC & hub I want to have an entire building full of switches & PCs. Is this possible? If not, how about with 2 wireless bridges talking to each other, instead of the AP/WB combination.

Re: Wireless Bridge Wired Client Numbers

gamccall — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:49:43 GMT

What specific equipment do you have? Bridges don't associate with access points, bridges associate with bridges. If your bridge device is associating with an access point, then it's functioning as a workgroup bridge.

If you have one of the 1310s, you can run it either as a bridge or a WGB. I seem to recall that a 1310 in WGB mode will support up to 255 wired clients, but I can't currently locate the docs which indicate that.

If you want building-to-building wireless with no restriction on number of clients, you need a bridge on each end.

-Gabriel

Re: Wireless Bridge Wired Client Numbers

ablenner — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:48:01 GMT

The bridge is an AIR-WGB352, the Access Point is AIR-AP1230

Thanks

Re: Wireless Bridge Wired Client Numbers

gamccall — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:54:41 GMT

WGB = WorkGroup Bridge. The WGB352 is limited to 8 wired clients. You can get a little breathing room by setting the aging time down to a few seconds so that idle clients aren't taking up slots, but that's not going to get you a building's worth of connectivity.

You need different hardware to accomplish what you've proposed. AIR-BR1310's list at $1299, the same as the 350 bridge and much less than the 1400's.

Re: Wireless Bridge Wired Client Numbers

skilambi — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:55:00 GMT

Can a 1310 bridge operate also an Access point? I know the 350 series bridges could not work as an AP, but in the Cisco documentation it states that the 1310 is a wireless bridge/AP. If it can work as an AP can both the bridge and the AP features be turned on simultaneously?

My toplogy is such

1310Bridge------1310Bridge-----wireless clients

Is this possible?Can I have P2P wireless link set up and then have wireless clients associate with the 1310 bridge?

I am thinking not but I wanted to make sure

If it can double as an AP is that the default setting, I am hoping it can be turned off.