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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Babcock" data-source="post: 211447" data-attributes="member: 46"><p>Hi Hanse,</p><p>This is a common problem in my experience.</p><p></p><p>Does it also happen when there are only a few people in the building, or does it mostly just happen when you have a larger crowd? If it is worst when you have a large crowd, then what is typically happening is that all of the phones people are carrying with them are searching the Wifi range (and communicating with your access point, even if they are not connected to it) and this is saturating the access point with requests. Most cheap wifi routers cannot handle large numbers of devices.</p><p></p><p>If it is happening regardless of the number of people/devices in the building, then you may have coherence issues due to interference from other wireless networks or devices operating in the same spectrum. </p><p></p><p>There are a few options: Adding more wifi access points to extend your coverage actually might not help much.</p><p></p><p>One option is to hide your network (SSID). This will prevent unwanted devices from attempting to connect to it, which should help. The downside of course is that everyone who needs to connect to the network will need to know the SSID and encryption settings and must manually enter them into their device.</p><p></p><p>Another option is (provided that your device supports it) to split the wireless into both the 2.4 and 5GHz spectrum as 2 separate SSID's, and reserve one of these exclusively for the iPad (in this case hiding the SSID would be a good idea).</p><p></p><p>Another option is to purchase a higher quality wireless access point that can handle more load, such as a Cisco or Aruba enterprise grade model. This will be considerably more expensive, but these tend to be rock solid.</p><p></p><p>Another option which may help is to get a directional antenna for one of the access points (although this will only help with coherence and range, not with the problem of too many unwanted devices scanning the access point.</p><p></p><p>I hope that's a helpful start.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Babcock, post: 211447, member: 46"] Hi Hanse, This is a common problem in my experience. Does it also happen when there are only a few people in the building, or does it mostly just happen when you have a larger crowd? If it is worst when you have a large crowd, then what is typically happening is that all of the phones people are carrying with them are searching the Wifi range (and communicating with your access point, even if they are not connected to it) and this is saturating the access point with requests. Most cheap wifi routers cannot handle large numbers of devices. If it is happening regardless of the number of people/devices in the building, then you may have coherence issues due to interference from other wireless networks or devices operating in the same spectrum. There are a few options: Adding more wifi access points to extend your coverage actually might not help much. One option is to hide your network (SSID). This will prevent unwanted devices from attempting to connect to it, which should help. The downside of course is that everyone who needs to connect to the network will need to know the SSID and encryption settings and must manually enter them into their device. Another option is (provided that your device supports it) to split the wireless into both the 2.4 and 5GHz spectrum as 2 separate SSID's, and reserve one of these exclusively for the iPad (in this case hiding the SSID would be a good idea). Another option is to purchase a higher quality wireless access point that can handle more load, such as a Cisco or Aruba enterprise grade model. This will be considerably more expensive, but these tend to be rock solid. Another option which may help is to get a directional antenna for one of the access points (although this will only help with coherence and range, not with the problem of too many unwanted devices scanning the access point. I hope that's a helpful start. [/QUOTE]
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