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What if a mesh wifi access point reaches maximum connections?
What if a mesh wifi access point reaches maximum connections and a new device wants to join the network at the location of that access point? Will the device be switched to the other access point aut...
FURRYe38 I want to have about 50 devices connected to 1 access point. If there's a 51st device wanting to join the network, I will want it to be connected to the other access point in the same mesh network. Is that possible?
wilber87 wrote:
FURRYe38 I want to have about 50 devices connected to 1 access point. If there's a 51st device wanting to join the network, I will want it to be connected to the other access point in the same mesh network. Is that possible?
Very short answer - no. Slightly longer answer - you wouldn't want it to be anyway, because the signal strength (in a proper install) will be much poorer on the other AP.
The number of connected devices is entirely irrelevant (you can literally have thousands of STAs), it's merely a question of *simultaneous and unidirectional* bandwidth utilization.
Odds are, if it _is_ a saturation problem, the backbone is already saturated anyway and it really won't make a whit of difference which AP you connect to, as they will all be equally bad.