Thread: Wireless Router Issues
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Unread 29-03-2008, 22:23
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Re: Wireless Router Issues
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Originally Posted by zim2411 View Post
At Philadelphia we had our scouting system up and running for everyone to use. We constantly ran into issues with our router crashing however. We used a Linksys WRT54G with dd-wrt firmware. Stock settings are to hand out 50 dhcp addresses, which we hit midday Thursday I think. I upped it to 250 maximum users, but we started running into issues with the Wi-Fi just dropping out of existence (no one's device could find it). We had a few things hardwired into the router, and they continued to function normally. We had about 70-80 DHCP entries around this time.

Is the issue with the router handling too many DHCP users? Would running the DHCP server on a computer behind the router, thus making the router function only as a access point/switch? Or can a WRT54G absolutely not handle this traffic load?

Is there any wi-fi system that is more powerful?
Generally, more than about 25 associated clients on a single access point will start to lead to problems. This is true for higher-end AP's as well. The number of DHCP entires or MAC entries are unlikely to be limiting factors.

You might see a somewhat greater number of simultaneous users if you run in G only mode.

If you want to increase the number of connected clients, you could run 3 access points on the non-overlapping channels 1, 6, and 11, and route them on the WAN side of the 3 WRT54G's.