Thank you @MerakiDave and @PhilipDAth for the suggestions! Yes, this is a risky and non-ideal situation. The devices are configured with a randomized connection back-off, but there are still conditions in which all of them can reset at once. Like during a power loss or operator error. Fortunately it's perfectly acceptable if there's a momentary loss of connectivity, but we found that the low-density wireless access points we've been using could totally crumble in this situation. They'd get latched in a state where no clients were given enough error-free airtime to recover the whole batch. Fortunately (and unfortunately) the devices are very close together, so the AP can be located very close to the clients. So i'm hoping we can tune the transmit power to keep this batch of devices *somewhat* isolated from the rest of the RF environment. Unfortunately we're intending to deploy this AP into a variety of unknown customer sites, so we don't have any control over the rest of the RF environment. I'm going to see if I can run some tests on an MR56 👍
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