Hi,
We are planning to configure Roaming Network with 10 units of Aiport Expresses in our office. I just want know how many number of clients can connect to this network.
Airport Express-OTHER
In theory 50.. https://www.apple.com/au/airport-express/specs/
In reality.. about 10 per unit.. but you might stretch it to 20 if you use both bands carefully. Remember you only have 100mbit ethernet connection.. at absolute max you are going to reduce 10 clients down to 10mbit.. and 20 clients to 5mbit.. that is very slow when you start moving files. And wireless just ain't that efficient.. so much less is better.
You might also find running 10 units harder than you might think unless they are 100M apart.. wireless provides 3 non-overlapping channels at 2.4ghz and about 3 times that number at 5ghz depending on location in the world.
If they are too close to each other.. you will have chaos.
Airport Express is a home unit.. for office you should buy pro grade gear.
In theory 50.. https://www.apple.com/au/airport-express/specs/
In reality.. about 10 per unit.. but you might stretch it to 20 if you use both bands carefully. Remember you only have 100mbit ethernet connection.. at absolute max you are going to reduce 10 clients down to 10mbit.. and 20 clients to 5mbit.. that is very slow when you start moving files. And wireless just ain't that efficient.. so much less is better.
You might also find running 10 units harder than you might think unless they are 100M apart.. wireless provides 3 non-overlapping channels at 2.4ghz and about 3 times that number at 5ghz depending on location in the world.
If they are too close to each other.. you will have chaos.
Airport Express is a home unit.. for office you should buy pro grade gear.
Hi,
How about Airport Extreme..!, Maximum concurrent users are not more than 100., we are going to share only internet on this network. And we are planning to go for 9 Units APs for entire office. Hope this will work fine as all users are not going to access the internet from one AP.
Thanks and Regards,
Kiran Kumar
You will find 9 units difficult to manage.
The cost of ubiquiti or other business gear is pretty much the same.. it is designed for this work.. the express or extreme is not.
The extreme will work better with more clients.. it is better wireless.. and should give a bit better range.. but if you need more than 3 or max 4 units.. the apple router is the wrong product.
Number of supported users(clients) in Roaming network setup
