[Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

[Dev Mohanty]

Rangan,

I remember the Linksys routers used to drop connection, as soon as 33-34
clients were logged in, and as Bryan
mentioned we got much better perfomance with the readily available
Taiwanese brand
of APs. With a Linksys 25 odd clients works just fine though with heavy
traffic.

With the Linksys WRT54G /L/S variants, its important to note the version (eg
5.1/ v6/ v8) and chip used (Atheros/ Broadcom) as
only certain versions support full funtionality, with opensourced firware.

Here's a good table to refer to:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

Cheers,
Dev


On 3/10/09, Rangan Srikhanta <rangan at laptop.org.au> wrote:
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> Folks,
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> Here at OLPC AU, we are using Linksys WRT54GLs using DD-WRT and configuring
> the routers to act as an AP according to the following instructions.
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point
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> I found I could turn the WRT54GL into the required AP mode in 10minutes,
> using an XO.
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> In our first round of deployments we will be only using WRT54GLs, and after
> speaking to Dev, will be working on 1 for every 25.
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> Thx,
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> Rangan
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> *From:* server-devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org [mailto:
> server-devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org] *On Behalf Of *Reuben K. Caron
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 March 2009 11:29 PM
> *To:* Daniel Drake
> *Cc:* server-devel
> *Subject:* Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS
> - ejabberd nightmare?
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> Daniel Drake wrote:
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> 2009/3/9 Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> <bryan at olenepal.org>:
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> We will have roughly 8+ AP's. We have found that off-the-shelf AP's can
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> handle around 60-70 users.  But that doesn't still doesn't solve the
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> problem of the XO's getting bogged down by tons of ejabberd chatter.
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> DSD: do you have any ideas about this?
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> Have only had a chance to test numbers on Linksys WRT54Gsomething
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> routers, which stop accepting new connections after 33 users. yay.
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> Have you tried loading a different firmware on these, dd-wrt?
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