Rangan,<br><br>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. <br>
<br>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.<br><br>Here's a good table to refer to: <a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices">http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices</a> <br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Dev<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/10/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rangan Srikhanta</b> <<a href="mailto:rangan@laptop.org.au">rangan@laptop.org.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" lang="EN-AU" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080"><div><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d">Folks,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d">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. <a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d">I found I could turn the WRT54GL into the required AP mode in 10minutes, using an XO. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d">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. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d">Thx,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d">Rangan</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #1f497d"> </span></p>
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<p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: WindowText">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: WindowText"> <a href="mailto:server-devel-bounces@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">server-devel-bounces@lists.laptop.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:server-devel-bounces@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">server-devel-bounces@lists.laptop.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Reuben K. Caron<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 10 March 2009 11:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> Daniel Drake<br><b>Cc:</b> server-devel<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?</span></p></div></div>
<div><span class="e" id="q_11ff08b657070ec3_1"><p> </p><p>Daniel Drake wrote: </p><pre>2009/3/9 Bryan Berry <a href="mailto:bryan@olenepal.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><bryan@olenepal.org></a>:</pre>
<pre> </pre><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt"><pre>We will have roughly 8+ AP's. We have found that off-the-shelf AP's can</pre><pre>handle around 60-70 users. But that doesn't still doesn't solve the</pre>
<pre>problem of the XO's getting bogged down by tons of ejabberd chatter.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>DSD: do you have any ideas about this?</pre><pre> </pre></blockquote><pre> </pre><pre>Have only had a chance to test numbers on Linksys WRT54Gsomething</pre>
<pre>routers, which stop accepting new connections after 33 users. yay.</pre><pre> </pre><p>Have you tried loading a different firmware on these, dd-wrt?</p></span></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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