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My WAX206 Router Continually Drops WiFi Signal
I manage a small network for my church. We have small business Internet service through Spectrum, entering the building on 75 Ohm coax into a business class DSL modem, then directly connected to thei...
AlanW365 wrote:
... I use the WAX206 as the main, internal router for both wired and wireless; with the wired connections routed through a Netgear GS724Tv4 managed smart switch. The WAX206 is also the DHCP server for all internal connections, using a private IP addressing scheme. Of the three wireless network choices, Wireless-1 is used as a secure internal WiFi access point, Wireless-2 is used as a public/guest WiFi access point, and Wireless-3 is disabled. For the two active WiFi networks, both 2.4 Ghz and 5.0 Ghz channels are enabled. ...
We don't have a lot of people actually connecting to our WiFi (sometimes up to 10-15 devices), but the other devices are broadcasting their own SSIDs.
Based on the specs, the WAX206 - in router mode - can support
Maximum number of supported WiFi clients 128
Maximum number of concurrent devices 60
A little bit scaring to the reader is to read about the bigger smart switch connected, and "other devices" with own SSIDs. Easy to reach the limit of max 60 concurrent devices overall.
I thought there might be a problem with exceeding the maximum number of WiFi connections; however, most of those "other devices" are people's smartphones who are broadcasting their SSIDs as potential hotspots and they are not connecting to our WiFi network. The highest number of active WiFi connections that I've seen has been 18.
As for the "large" smart switch attached to the WAX206 Router, it is strictly wired Ethernet to the offices/rooms. There used to be a 12-port unmanaged switch, but we wanted to segregate two internal subnets between administrative systems and facility management systems.
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