Wi-Fi Overcapacity Issues

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Overcapacity occurs when too many client devices connect to the same AP.

• aka device saturation
• max number of clients supported by an AP varies
  • but 30 clients per AP is good rule of thumb
  • can configure a max number of connections on AP
• even with low client connections, wireless network can suffer from bandwidth saturation
  • available bandwidth is shared by all clients
  • wireless controller typically has reporting tools to
    • diagnose bandwidth issues
    • identify client bandwidth consumption
    • wireless channel utilization
      • can configure APs and clients to reassign channels dynamically
  • if a traffic shaper is used,
    • may automatically throttle bandwidth to overactive nodes