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ChristianWis
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Mar 16, 2024
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Nighthawk R8000 extension of limitation of wifi clients and network

Hello friends, Finally, after adding IoT devices to my router, I reached the maximum limitation of 35 clients, it does not allow me to add more. How can I resolve this limitation? I would need to ta...
  • plemans's avatar
    Mar 16, 2024

    One thing to try. 

    the R8000 is triband. There's a few versions of IoT devices that are dual band and could connect to the 5ghz. You could connect them to that. 

    Also, what router did you connect to the R8000? did you set it with a separate ssid? 

    the r8000 can have more than 35 device connected to it but not on the same band. so if you can separate them out, it can work