topic Re: Maximum users per AP in Wireless

Maximum users per AP

satcom2k — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 18:54:28 GMT

I have a fairly large wireless deployment and I have been looking for information regarding the total number of users supported per AP; as of yet I have not found any information other then marketing statements of "High Capacity". I am looking for 802.11G/B information regarding the total number of users supported using no auth, 802.1x, WEP, and WPA security configurations; this would be an indoor deployment. I would appreciate any information that could be provided.

Re: Maximum users per AP

bernhardb — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:23:16 GMT

I believe to remember that TAC sais that no more than 20 users should be on one AP. With VoIP (7920 phones) just 7 users.

What do you call "fairly large"? How many AP's? What type?

Are you using a WLSE? Or wlan controllers?

VoIP? separate VLAN's? QoS?

best regards

Re: Maximum users per AP

Rob Huffman — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:35:47 GMT

Hi Sekmet,

This is a question that comes up all the time.As you can see from the answers in the links below,there are alot of factors that come into play.The consensus from everything I have read would be 20-30 users per AP depending on actual applications etc.Have a read for some great answers provided in this forum by some "hands on" experts:

http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Wireless%20-%20Mobility&topic=General&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Dpass_through%26location%3Doutline%40%5E1%40%40.ee9a96d/2#selected_message

http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Wireless%20-%20Mobility&topic=General&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Dpass_through%26location%3Doutline%40%5E1%40%40.1dd6c0a5/0#selected_message

http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Wireless%20-%20Mobility&topic=Getting%20Started%20with%20Wireless&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Dpass_through%26location%3Doutline%40%5E1%40%40.1dd5f1ca/0#selected_message

http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Wireless%20-%20Mobility&topic=WLAN%20Radio%20Standards&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Dpass_through%26location%3Doutline%40%5E1%40%40.eeab5db/1#selected_message

Hope this helps!

Rob

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Re: Maximum users per AP

satcom2k — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:55:29 GMT

Thank you for your help with this.

Re: Maximum users per AP

dmcquestion — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:44:23 GMT

It depends upon your users and application. In my warehouse I have one AP350 driving 45+ handheld RF scanners. The RF scanners are mostly 4800 cards and a few 350 cards. The traffic generated by each scanner is very light and the scanners are running at 1Mps therefore I can get that high of a client density and I still have room to add more.

The wireless network says it is 11Mps or 54Mps but you do not have that bandwidth. You have to account for the wireless overhead and wireless is running at half-duplex.

Good luck with your deployment.