Question about wireless routers.
August 5th, 2016
Depends how good your connection is. Technically, most routers can support up to 256 clients, but I wouldn’t put more than 12 medium usage PCs over one router. If they aren’t using the connection much, you can probably up this to 20. All depends on how good your hardware and connection is tbh – different routers have different specs and can get laggy.
Ok thanks, I am thinking 2 desktops, 4 laptops and 1 or 2 printers and a television (for the weather channel). But most of the time all of these devices would not be operating at the same time. Rarely any heavy downloading..mostly checking emails and doing some research so I should be fine. Btw what connection speed can you recommend I get from my ISP. Know any good routers too?
You should go for ADSL 2+ with 802.11n specs.
If you got lots of walls, you might need to change the antenna to increase the signal gain.
The performance of your router will start decreasing typically at around 10-20 wireless connections, this is ofcourse if you have s budget router.
If your connection speed is pretty fast (like 20-50Mb) and you have a good router like a Netgear DG834UK ADSL2+ you shouldn’t have a problem allowing various wireless connections to/from your router.
Bare in mind that alot of budget routers dont have ADSL2+, a rather new technology formed from the old ADSL catering for better bandwidth usage and therefore increasing the commited speeds dramatically, neither do these old routers balance the load between each connection, so the first few systems that connect to the router will usually have faster speeds, load balancing routers are commonly available but usually cost that little bit more, but ofcourse if your looking for mass connectivity then its worth every penny investing in ADSL2+ and load-balancing.
Hope this helps you dude
thanks…all new stuff to me.