CWB 150AX CLIENT DEAUTHENTICATE NPS

[vadimsh207]

Hi guys,

I use CWB 150AX AP + WPA2 Enterprise (certificates) based on Windows NPS.

There are a few clients that sometimes disconnect for no reason, and some can't connect at all.

No error on NPS log or on the client side.

found this in the AP log, can't find this error code:

*apfMsConnTask_0: Apr 12 14:52:41.837: %APF-5-CLIENT_DEAUTHENTICATE: apf_80211.c:14556 Client Deauthenticated: Client MAC: ---, Ip Address: (---), AP Name: CBW150AX-01, Radio: 5 GHz , WLAN Id: 2, Reason: 99.

Would appreciate any help

[vadimsh207]

I added additional AP, looks much better. No disconnections so far. I've connected only small part of the clients, about 30. Going to add another 100. Wondering how many clients can handle one CWB 150AX? According to the spec should be 200 per radio, total 400.. Does anyone know (real experience) how many clients it can handle?

[Scott Fella]

No... that count is too high.  The rule of thumb is around 25 per ap and the reason this is, is because wireless is a shared medium, meaning all device that is connected to a given ap, will share the channel.  The more devices on the same channel, the less available bandwidth for each device.  

What is the max, is for max allowed, but that doesn't mean that each device will have the same experience as if you just had a few.  Also you need to try to use 5GHz if possible as the more ap's you have, you don't have that many channels on the 2.4ghz that you can use, 1, 6, and 11, are non-overlapping.

[vadimsh207]

Thank you for replay @Scott Fella 

So for ~130 clients I need at least 5 access points. Looks a lot for my small office. Is there another solution? maybe more powerful AP?

[Scott Fella · Accepted solution]

This has nothing to do with ap's but available channels.  Why not just try with three and see how the experience is?  You can always just add.