Number of workstation

[Mike Baroukh]

> a quote from "ath9k_htc: Allow upto two simultaneous interfaces":
>   The maximum number of stations that can be handled in
>   the firmware is 8,

Oups ...
Ok I found the message on ath9k-devel.
Thanks a lot !
I was not sure if the problem is in hostapd, driver or hardware but 
finally it is in firmware :) ...
Not easy ...

So does somebody can help me to choose a wifi dongle able to manage more 
simultaneous stations ?
I see a lot of users reporting reference of hardware compatible with 
hostapd, but the number of allowed workstation is never reported.
And this kind of information is not in specs.
(for my dongle, the specs did not event mention ability to use Master 
Mode ...)

thanks again ...


Mike


Le 06/07/2011 15:51, Christian Lamparter a ?crit :
> On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 08:38:50 AM Mike Baroukh wrote:
>> I'm a new hostap user so sorry if this is a dumb question.
>> I made an access point that works nice but seems to have a limit on
>> number of workstations that can connect to it.
>> When too much users are connected, the next who will try will trigger in
>> syslog :
>>
>> If another workstation disconnect, this one will then success.
>> My hope is to handle about 50 workstations but I actually, the max I can
>> handle is 7 simultaneous users (saw using kill -USR1<pid>) .
>>
>> My question is : could this be a built in limit of the usb dongle I use?
>> Parameter max_num_sta is set to 500 so the limit is not on hostapd.
>> In fact, i'm not really sure to understand the limit between what
>> hostapd does, the wifi driver does and the wifi card does ...
>>
>> Infos on my config :
>> My box is built on a small pc so I had to use a usb wifi dongle :
>> TP-LINK  TL-WN721N
>> (lsusb : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc.
>> AR9271 802.11n)
>> I used linux-wireless to build the ath9k_htc driver.
>> The OS is a debian squeeze 32 bits.
> a quote from "ath9k_htc: Allow upto two simultaneous interfaces":
>   The maximum number of stations that can be handled in
>   the firmware is 8, manage the station slots accordingly.
>
> I guess one slot is reserved for a different use [probably for
> the AP interface itself...]
>
> Regards,
> 	Chr