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AXE11000 WiFi Router (RAXE500) - How many devices?
I have a AXE11000 WiFi Router (RAXE500). I have about 35-40 Smart Light Switches (2.4 GHz) plus other devices like RIng Doorbell, Echo Dots and mobile devices so probably 60 in total but the issue c...
For me, the device count recommendations seem pretty arbitrary, especially since I have seen their older and far lower end WiFi routers from the 802.11n days handle more than 64 clients. While WiFi does experience increased overhead as the number of clients increase, though that depends on how many clients are active and not idling on the WiFi network.
Wanted to also add that spreading a large number of devices across more than one AP will help reduce overhead when lots of devices are active at the sametime, thus it is good even if the hardware can handle it on one device.
Though for your issue, I wonder if there could be some kind of bug in DHCP if it is not assigning IPs after a certain point.
In such a case, what happens if you manually specify an IP address for the device?