How many users can connect to a wireless router?

If I were to set up a series of consumer-grade routers in, say, a football stadium, all connected to each other via Ethernet and all broadcasting the same SSID, how many users could connect to the network on a Linksys WRT-150N as an example? Thanks

asked Sep 10 '11 at 20:01

DnyWlsh
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1	Linksys routers by default only handle 50 users. There is a setting you can change to avoid it though. answered Sep 12 '11 at 09:09 Josh_M 2.7k●6●15●51

I would say no more than 50-75 users per router (75 being on the VERY high side). Also, you'd have to setup a class-A DHCP scope as well.

answered Sep 10 '11 at 21:04

mad0865
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I read somewhere it was 255 per router because of the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

(Sep 10 '11 at 22:58) DnyWlsh

Per class C you can have 253 users on a router. I would not use more than that (or even that many at a time) on a home grade router, though. Most home routers will limit you on how many can connect, outside of this class C limit, so there will be settings beside the logical limitation in the router's software. Look through the documentation.

(Sep 12 '11 at 13:58) djmoore711

0	A mask is used to determine what subnet an IP address belongs to. An IP address has two components, the network address and the host address. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnetwork answered Sep 11 '11 at 00:39 mad0865 156●1●4

0	I'm not sure how many users the router can actually handle, but according to my wireless router settings it states that the maximum is 253. answered Sep 11 '11 at 17:45 nickjuly4 951●9●16●21

In theory a router can handle 253 connections. This is not the case with most routers, though. Most of the times the manufacturer limits them to a certain amount. This is different for every router. You can how change it, though.

Linking router together is tricky.. It will work and that's pretty much it. The internet is going to be very very slow, because the data has to go through all the routers. Also, think about maintenance..

The more practical solution, in this case, would be to have one hotspot where everyone can connect.

answered Sep 12 '11 at 16:04

Mitte
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