Re: OT:Limiting number of Clients Per Access Point

Not sure how well this would work but ...

Use MAC authentication and have multiple SSIDs.

Deploy your wireless network as you would also do, with ~ 20% overlap.
About 20% is standard for typical installs, however in this case you might
need to have much more overlap to ensure good coverage.

APs interfere with each other!

You will also want to make sure that each neighboring AP is on a different
channel. However ... do not use more the 3 or 4 channels across your
network ... I have heard that this will cause problems, additional latency,
etc ...

When you do your site survey, keep moving the APs apart until you find the
right amount of quality.

Designate some clients for each SSID and spread them out to the multiple
SSIDs on the multiple APs. This way you would only allow clients to connect
to a particular SSID, you would have some overlap still.

Clients always look to the best signal, and they would connect to the
appropriate AP.

With this said, I personally do not like this option so well. It adds
complexity and in some cases, you might have poor coverage.

Not doing voice are you? I would suggest to size the deployment right,
have right gear, etc ...

Another thought might be to run some clients on wireless A or G; 5Ghz versus
2.4. You can also run some clients on N and N can run on both 5Ghz or 2.4.
This might help.

If you have voice, you can also use a 7921 phone to test your network and
perform MOS scores and site surveys. Just a thought as you get closer /
deploy. All of this can be seen through the phone's gui.

HTH,

Andrew Lissitz

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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:25 AM, karim jamali <karim.jamali_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Gents,
>
> I want to know the possibility of limiting the number of users per AP. I
> need the solution for both the case of Controller Based AP or Autonomous
> AP.
> The only way I have found is through MAC authentication as in the
> following:
>
> Is there a way to limit the maximum number of client devices that can
> connect to a single Autonomous Access point?
>
> *A. *The default behavior of a Cisco client device is that it connects to
> the AP that has best signal strength available. But you can limit the
> clients that can connect to any particular AP through MAC authentication.
> You need to provide the MAC address of the client to the AP so that the AP
> can allow only those clients and restrict all the other clients that are
> not
> part of the allowed MAC address list from connecting to that particular AP.
>
> Is there an option to do this limitation without configuring MAC addresses
> authentication?
>
> Your help is much appreciated
>
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> KJ
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