Wireless routers - maximum connections?

Conor_3

It's 4 wired connections, 128 wireless connections on the Netgear DG834s. You can actually use more than 4 wired connections by connecting them to switches. Depending on what subnet mask you use, you could have 1000's of computers using the same one Netgear.

John_Gray

There's a theoretical (and quite probably practical!) limit to do with subnet addressing, which for most domestic routers will be 254 devices, so counting one for the router and four for ethernet-attached PCs, then you could perhaps have 239 wireless connections. Of course, your specific router may not support so many wireless connections, and you might have ISP bandwidth problems with that many devices.

The answer, therefore, is that practically that you can have as many wireless connections as you can afford laptops!

john_s_2

John_Gray wrote: »

The answer, therefore, is that practically that you can have as many wireless connections as you can afford laptops!

Or as many as my kids have friends! ;-)

Thanks.

john_s_2

Just come off the phone to Sky. They confirmed what we suspected, that their router can cope with more than four computers if some of them are wireless.

I wanted to be certain before committing myself though!