Hi,
I am kinda learning and firefighting wireless at the same time at the minute, so I hope you can bear with me if you read below!
To give some background to my question; For some reason (noone in our office knows why), our deployments of the AP-105 (in a school environment) have been done under the assumption that the AP can only support 15 clients, and one AP has been put into each class regardless of the size of the room. Our team leader is thinking of putting 2 AP-105's in each classroom (for future deployments) to support more laptops connecting, but I am not so sure that this is a good idea. The APs would likely be 10 feet away from each other (in the same room), and there is no guarantee that all the devices connecting will be 802.11n capable. As I am now slowly picking up the mess that some of the previous installations appear to have been, and I would like to follow "Best Practices", I had a few question to ask. Unfortunately, I am asking them here rather than trying to read the guides at the moment, as I need to try and get some answers quickly before things get deployed regardless, and then I end up having to sort out the mess later on.
Thanks if you have read this far!
My questions
Does anybody know how many clients the AP-105 can support connecting at the same time? I know this might depend on the type of traffic, the wireless radio etc, but is there a rough guide to sizing an AP?
Is there a minimum amount of distance that should be between two AP-105's?
If anyone has any advice that would be appreciated, I know these things could be hard to predict without the details of our sites.
Cheers
p.s. I have found out that all of our site surveys have been "guess work", noone has ever used RF Plan, I think the early surveys someone USED to walk around with a laptop and an AP connected via a long cat5e lead, to test suitability of AP placement (no spectrum analyzer). Site surveys no longer get done at all, and the assumption is one AP-105 per class, regardless of wall thickness, room size etc. Hence my post, especially now they are considering two APs per class!