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How many devices can connect to a R8000P?
I have had this router for a couple of years now and been quite happy with it. As well, I've had an ever growing number of devices attached to it - currently 63, but one TV & AppleTV are usually turned off.
Lately, devices keep dropping off - different Sonos speakers, the house alarm, outdoor cameras - I can find a rhyme or reason. I saw the high device count so I went to upgrade so I looked at buying a Nighthawk AX12 since they seem to handle more, but the specs say nothing of the number of devices. I got it and the box says "30 devices".
Before I open this thing & make returning it more difficult, will this fix my problem?
And, given my pentiant for buying gadgets, will I be looking to do this again in a few months?
Is there a better long-term strategy?
Lots of questions... hope there's an easy answer.
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Its usually 32 devices per band.
https://kb.netgear.com/24043/How-many-clients-can-you-connect-wirelessly-to-a-NETGEAR-router
The R8000P is triband so you can accomadate up to 96 devices if you seperate them out. But if they're all high bandwidth devices, you're not going to be able to run that many at a time. For example, I usually have around 60 devices on my network but a good 20+ are IoT devices and use minimal bandwidth.
did the issues just start?
What firmware version are you on?
What modem/gateway are you connected to?
When they "drop off", do the disconnect from the network, do they say "connected, no internet", are they unable to see the wifi? what actually happens?
As I said, the issues just started & they are low bandwidth devices, however many will only connect via 2.4Ghz. Most high bandwidth devices are wired.
Firmware is v1.4.1.68_1.3.28
Most devices don't differentiate when a connection is broken, but those that do say WiFi connection dropped. A few seconds later they reconnect, usually. My cameras have stopped sending notifications and the app to see what's going on keeps needing to reconnect.
Come to think of it, the cameras are probably the highest bandwidth items on the 2.4 band.
I have tried to split my 2.4 devices between the Guest network and the regular one, but there are still a lot there. And they are connected to 2.4 because they won't connect to anything else.
using guest network doesn't allow you more than the 32 per band.
How many do you have on the 2.4ghz?
