2600 aironet AP supports how many clients? lets assume 2.4 ghz / 5.7ghz dual radio will support ? and does it means if, we you more SSID we user capacity increases ??

Question

I have tried to search some documents, where I find Cisco saying 128 users can be supported. But I am confused is it? if, yes is it like all together 2.4/5.7 ghz or single radio !!!!

Answer 1

Don't look at the data sheets that specify the max devices, because that doesn't mean end user experience. Now there are various opinions in this. The rule of thumb has always been around 25 devices. If however you are doing voice and or video, this number would be less. If the end users are just doing web and email, you can bump this number up. Remember, the bottle mech would be the connection from the AP to the switch. Which is the main thing to look at. I'm school environments, I tend to see end users start complaining around when there is 33+ clients on a given access point in a high density implementation.  Now can you have 40 or 50, sure, but it really comes down to when the end user starts noticing things and starts to complain. What you will hear is that it doesn't work here some times, but everywhere else, it's fine. If you look at the APs the devices was associated to and the history of number of clients on a given access point, you would be able to see a correlation between the two most of the time. Again, this is what I see.
Scott