Wireless Bridge Wired Client Numbers

[ablenner]

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.

[gamccall]

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

[ablenner]

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

Thanks

[gamccall · Accepted solution]

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.

[skilambi]

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.