cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
cancel
31017
Views
0
Helpful
11
Replies

How many clients support access points 1602, 2602, 3602?

Hi! How many clients support access point 1602, 2602, 3602. I have found for example that the 1602 supports 32 ClientLink clients and max 128 clients, APs 2602, 3602 supports 128 ClientLink clients and max 200 clients. But is it really? And can we say for example that the AP 2602 will withstand max 200 clients?

3 Accepted Solutions

Accepted Solutions

George Stefanick
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Sergey,

The issue or I should say the question isnt really how many clients an ap can handle. You are limited by the RF also called the medium. 802.11 is a half duplex medium. As each client is added, the bandwidth becomes half each time.

Ideally for data you can expect 20 clients per ap. If you are doing voice and video on wifi, i would like to 15 or so.

Hope this helps ..

__________________________________________________________________________________________
"Satisfaction does not come from knowing the solution, it comes from knowing why." - Rosalind Franklin
__________________________________________________________________________________________
‎"I'm in a serious relationship with my Wi-Fi. You could say we have a connection."

"Satisfaction does not come from knowing the solution, it comes from knowing why." - Rosalind Franklin
___________________________________________________________

View solution in original post

Scott Fella
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

That is the supported amount by Cisco's terms of client link or mac address.  The rule of thumb is 25 clients per ap no matter what type of ap.  This can change depending on the applications that will be using the wireless.  If its jsut web and email, then maybe 30-40, but video might be 4-8.

Thanks,

Scott

Help out other by using the rating system and marking answered questions as "Answered"

-Scott
*** Please rate helpful posts ***

View solution in original post

That's a nice marketing slide:)  stick with 20-25 and you should be good unless your doing voice or video.

Thanks,

Scott

Help out other by using the rating system and marking answered questions as "Answered"

-Scott
*** Please rate helpful posts ***

View solution in original post

11 Replies 11

George Stefanick
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Sergey,

The issue or I should say the question isnt really how many clients an ap can handle. You are limited by the RF also called the medium. 802.11 is a half duplex medium. As each client is added, the bandwidth becomes half each time.

Ideally for data you can expect 20 clients per ap. If you are doing voice and video on wifi, i would like to 15 or so.

Hope this helps ..

__________________________________________________________________________________________
"Satisfaction does not come from knowing the solution, it comes from knowing why." - Rosalind Franklin
__________________________________________________________________________________________
‎"I'm in a serious relationship with my Wi-Fi. You could say we have a connection."

"Satisfaction does not come from knowing the solution, it comes from knowing why." - Rosalind Franklin
___________________________________________________________

Here is the link where I found it:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5678/ps11983/at_a_glance_c45-691984.pdf

See the table in the section Summary.

That's a nice marketing slide:)  stick with 20-25 and you should be good unless your doing voice or video.

Thanks,

Scott

Help out other by using the rating system and marking answered questions as "Answered"

-Scott
*** Please rate helpful posts ***

Scott Fella
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

That is the supported amount by Cisco's terms of client link or mac address.  The rule of thumb is 25 clients per ap no matter what type of ap.  This can change depending on the applications that will be using the wireless.  If its jsut web and email, then maybe 30-40, but video might be 4-8.

Thanks,

Scott

Help out other by using the rating system and marking answered questions as "Answered"

-Scott
*** Please rate helpful posts ***

Ruckus Wireless AP's blows that theory right out of the water.

Not even their entry level AP does such low client count.

I'm a Cisco guy, not slating Cisco at all! :)

Scott Fella
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

Bottom line is that you have a gigabit port on the AP.... So you need to look at your oversubscribing just like if you have 200 wired ports and the link to the core was a gig link... doesn't make sense.  Wireless is also half duplex, so if you connect at 300mbps, you really will only achieve half of that and the more users, the more the allocated throughput for each user is cut in half.  Many deployments I see these days are for high density because of all these BYOD devices and guest users on the wireless.  You don't want to max out the AP or else people will just complain about it.  Plan it out right and everyone will be happy in the end.

Thanks,

Scott

Help out other by using the rating system and marking answered questions as "Answered"

-Scott
*** Please rate helpful posts ***

I understand it is better to adhere to the rules of 15-20 clients per access point. And everyone will be happy. Right?

That is correct.

Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPhone App

-Scott
*** Please rate helpful posts ***