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I'm working on a project where I have about 30 people connecting to a single router wirelessly to perform "computer music." Basically we send packets over the wireless network to synchronize players and such. As we've grown, issues have been popping up where some machines will not be able to synchronize.
I thought one solution would be to get 2 routers and link them up via ethernet. Then have half of the people connect to one router, the other half to the other. Would this actually improve wireless responsiveness? I would obviously have to do some setting up (making sure the channels are different, DHCP is configured properly, etc). Also, would this be seamless (e.g. if I am connected to wireless network A and ping someone on network B, does anything special have to be done or do the routers take care of figuring out where that computer is?).
Many thanks!
Have you done any test to find the root cause of the unsync problem? Maybe a single better Wireless router will do the trick? – o.k.w – 2010-02-19T07:16:12.363
Switching from an Airport Extreme to a D-Link DIR-655 improved things immensely. I've only tested with 10 computers though. I hope it scales well! This is more a "just in case" kind of thing. – None – 2010-02-19T07:50:36.620
May be of some use: http://serverfault.com/questions/72767/why-is-internet-access-and-wi-fi-always-so-terrible-at-large-tech-conferences
– sblair – 2010-02-19T08:37:49.557Also on serverfault, about load-balancing wifi: http://serverfault.com/questions/113607/questions-about-overlapping-wifi-access-points
– Charles Stewart – 2010-02-19T09:15:43.7271Is this a serverfault question? – Charles Stewart – 2010-02-19T09:27:27.523