You said "xfinity wifi" -- that's a specific SSID from Comcast that they bring in for others in your area that are customers (like me) to use. Which is what I reference as the Comcast radio - the radio they provided. If that's not the case what I would do is put the lower priority items or further distant items on 2.4GHz and the closer/higher priority items on 5GHz. That said - what frequencies are you using on these? Never set up 2.4GHz in auto - always use channels 1, 6 or 11 (the rest overlap with those and cause interference). And with 5-6.1GHz avoid the DFS range (>ch. 54 and < ch. 130) as those will go offline randomly for at least 30 minutes at a time. I can go into further detail but it's a lot of information to digest. Avoiding those two things will help with speed and capabilities in addition to making an active decision as to what will use what network. Also keep your radio away from anything with an electric motor - they will give off interference in the 2.4GHz and 5.0-6.1GHz range as well. -- Ryan On 10/30/2014 1:10 PM, Olwe Bottorff wrote: > Not sure what you mean by "comcast radio". I think we have 2 SSIDs, a > 5. and a 2.4 on our Cisco XB3 -- and yeah, I think *many* devices are > trying to get on the 5.0 > > --- > LB > > > On Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:35 PM, Ryan Coleman > <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > > > > I a real world situation never trust more than 2 or 3 devices on > an AP. > > I have three in my house - 6 phones, two computers, three wireless > set-top boxes, etc... each of the fixed set-tops are on their own > SSID (which are part of the group - not hidden or anything), the > PCs use the 5GHz SSIDs (there are 2) and the phones go on the 2.4s > that are available... we never have connection issues. But if you > try to do 1 single SSID and put them all on at once? Death by wifi. > > Even my high-end gear I sell and install (Xirrus) for my day job > has limitations of 30 active users per radio without any special > configurations out of the box. A single radio *could* support 100 > devices if you tune it right but you don't have that type of > option on consumer hardware, especially the free stuff you get > from Comcast. > > Do you have to use the Comcast radio? Can you buy your own and > plug that in instead? > > -- > Ryan > > On 10/30/2014 10:21 AM, Olwe Bottorff wrote: >> I think we've whittled it down to there being too many devices >> trying to be on the system. Learned the modem will support up to >> 10 devices (7 realistically). Told also that we need another >> "access point". I'm guessing that means a whole 'nother >> modem/network. Is there any way around this? Signal strength >> boosting won't help, will it? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20141030/d05e57f0/attachment.html>