hostapd + 100 devices on Cubieboard

[Bruno Antunes]

On 4 May 2017 at 16:54, Marek Floriańczyk <marek.florianczyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dnia czwartek, 4 maja 2017 11:40:24 CEST Weedy pisze:
>> On 4 May 2017 at 02:28, Marek Floriańczyk <marek.florianczyk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > What wifi dongle (preferably with antenna) would you recommend?
>>
>> If we are going rinkydink USB devices I would have gone with an
>> atheros/qualcomm chip.
>> https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN722N
>
> Hi,
>
> I was testing this one yesterday, with mode "g", if there was one or two
> clients (laptops) - no problem I could easily log into wifi network,
> But when I started something like 20 devices, connection was no longer
> possible
>
> From wikidevi page:
> "This device supports a maximum of 2 simultaneous AP and 7 clients VIFs w/
> ath9k_htc"
>
> So maybe in my case this is a problem ?

No, that is the number of interfaces the device can generate it will
appear in the output of iw list.
Remember the first mail.
You only need one AP for your setup.

Without logs its impossible to know what is failing.

Regards
>
> Best Regards
> Marek
>
>
>>
>> > Yesterday I was testing this setup with wifi dongle TP-Link TL-WN727N
>
>
>
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