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Derek Ross | 17 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The problem is everyone always underestimates the amount of mobile devices and people. People have multiple devices. And humans hinder the signal quality. You always need more bandwidth and more access points. Whatever you feel need you probably need 3X more that 🤣
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Sarah SoupBox [Zap.Cooking] | 17 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 it's wild, that should be the first selling point from providers to these conference room owners...hey you are going to have 500 people in here with a minimum of one device, cells. this will not work unless you have this or that.... lol
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Sarah SoupBox [Zap.Cooking] | 17 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 *per person
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phil | 17 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Agreed. I’ve been involved with some reasonably large WiFi deployments in businesses and schools in the past as well as for events. A lot of people seem to think that WiFi is easy to do. Just deploy a couple of access points because that is what works at home and they don’t want to pay to have it done properly. It generally does need a lot more access points (and decent quality access points) to do it properly taking in to account the number of clients, bandwidth requirements and attenuation from people and various materials. Thought also needs to be given to location of the APs and frequency planning to avoid overlaps.