NUMBER OF MR APs NEEDED BASED ON CLIENT COUNT

[Riser]

Hi team,
How do we know how many APs need to be deployed on the basis of client count? Say we have 500 users and a 30/70 split between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz is used.

[PhilipDAth]

It's not that black and white.  Maybe check out this article and some of the links from it:

https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/WiFi_Basics_and_Best_Practices/Approximating_Maximum_Clients_per... 

But I know you want a number.  20 users per AP will normally give "good" performance.  Knowing nothing else than what is presented so far, I would be thinking around 25 access points.

[Riser]

@PhilipDAth thank you. I'm meant to understand that there is a formula for calculating this. I'm trying to get that too.

[ww]

https://documentation.meraki.com/Architectures_and_Best_Practices/Cisco_Meraki_Best_Practice_Design/...

[KarstenI]

Also think about that users do not equal clients. And a connected Apple Watch will have less impact than the user developing cloud-databases.