# of Stations per AP

[texmesh]

Anyone know what the practical limit is of the number of NS5M units to Rocket AP's running in AirMax mode?

[whitedot]

The literature suggested around 100 maximum clients per AP. Not sure if this is a real world/practical number though, simply because I don't know if it's been rolled out and tested thoroughly by any WISPs.

[texmesh]

Yeah, that's what I trying to find out.
The front page of the Ubiquiti web site says 300+ subcribers per base station.
Seems a bit high but even 100 would be good for me.
However, I wonder what throughput a customer could get if there are so many stations (NS5M) associated with the system at the same time. I would like to achieve 2-3Mbps at any given time.

[konrad]

Well, ethernet port is 100mbps, so at 50 clients downloading or uploading 2mbps, thats where you will hit your limit.

But in real world situation nothing is that simple ;) What kind of setup youre thinking of ?

[texmesh]

Yeah, not sure how we get 150Mbps+ on a 100Mbps Ethernet link. I just assumed it was a Gigabit Ethernet link. Guess not.
I'll have a Rocket 5M with 90 degree sector (20dB) and NS5M clients. All running in AirMax mode.
I'll have 4 sectors on the tower.
If I could get true 50Mbps through each sector, that would be more than enough.

[whitedot]

Couple of things I've picked up from browsing these forums:

1. 150Mbps is the total throughput in both directions at the same time, so you could have a 75Mbps stream downloading and the same uploading. That's how it's possible over standard ethernet.
2. The '300 clients per base station' thing assumes three Rockets on 120deg sectors making up a base station.
3. From what I've seen from people on here, 50Mbps throughput on a Rocket with sector is perfectly possible via PtP, but I don't know who it behaves in a PtMP situation with a load of clients.

:smile5:

[ether3al]

There is no real set number... it all depends on application if everyone is running VOIP or video then the number of clients that can reliably be supported will be a great deal lower then a bunch of clients that just browse and do email.

[WHT]

Yeah, that's what I trying to find out.
The front page of the Ubiquiti web site says 300+ subcribers per base station.
That is a tad conrfusing. It means 300 subs per "base statin" composed of THREE APs.

http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33295 where I said
Sorry I don't have any links or citations, but as I've been seeing...most WISP are limiting their Rocket APs to 60 users per AP. And read on through page 2.

[UBNT-Matt]

I would have hoped they figured out what they were looking for by now
(points at post dates) :icon_wink:

[WHT]

Dang it...why did the questin show up as an unread post?