I have inherited an issue and looking for the fastest, cleanest way to resolve it.  We have an auditorium that seats 821 people.  We have 4 production SSID's.  2 of which are password protected, 2 of which are open with radius mac address authentication.  And we offer a BYOT network.  The previous person that handled the WiFi before me never planned on every person having a device and attempting to use it at the same time in the Auditorium... so they only deployed 2 MR52's in this space (plenty of signal though for the size of the space).   What I noticed first time they went to use it... each MR52 only had roughly 30 to 60 clients out of a guaranteed 700 people with devices.  We took away the BYOT network this year, but it appears there were many personal devices spamming the AP's trying to get an IP.  Most with 0.0.0.0 or 169 self assigned IPs.  And each MR52 only has a single 1 gig copper line to it.  Many of the production device chromebooks weren't even getting an IP address at all, and I believe those personal devices trying to get on our production network were the cause.   We have spare older MR2x series, a few MR3x series... but I don't believe just hanging more AP's will magically fix this area since it is open space and the 2.4 channels will overlap.  I also believe the personal devices were spamming the AP's trying to get an IP and locking them up as the AP wouldn't pass traffic even if you did get an IP address.   I thought of creating a new radio profile just for the auditoriums, so I could hang more AP's and just disable 2.4 radio on all of them since all of our issued devices are 5.0ghz capable.  But from researching the forums and documentation, I believe we would need roughly 8 access points total and I still couldn't guarantee a decent experience in the space.   Can someone else who may have set up an open space share how they would overcome this issue? ... View more