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dumb airport extreme question
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hi everyone,
my understanding is that an airport extreme can support up to 50 simultaneous users. i want more than 50 simultaneous users on the same network to use the airport extreme. does anyone know what i need to do to accomplish this goal? any information or suggestions would be appreciated.
tia
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
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Buy another base station?
What do you need more than 50 simultaneous users for?
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Originally posted by Icruise:
Buy another base station?
so, there can be multiple base stations on the same subnet?
What do you need more than 50 simultaneous users for?
if i told you, i'd have to kill you 
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Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Nov 2000
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I believe you can use the bridging capability of the base stations to not only increase the range, but also the number of max users, but you should probably ask Apple about it if you are really going to try.
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There's something called the "Wireless Distribution System" that Apple has very adequate information about in it's knowledge base. I have one running in my home now. Also, the 50 used max might be a theoretical maximum, 802.11b/g might not really have the bandwidth to support more than that...
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Originally posted by iDriveX:
There's something called the "Wireless Distribution System" that Apple has very adequate information about in it's knowledge base. I have one running in my home now. Also, the 50 used max might be a theoretical maximum, 802.11b/g might not really have the bandwidth to support more than that...
thanks for the info. i'm thinking about having 3 airports sharing one OC-3 connection. that would allocate approx. 52 Mb/sec to each base station.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Originally posted by ddouglas:
so, there can be multiple base stations on the same subnet?
Yes. You can tell the Base Stations not to distribute their own IPs if you connect them all to a router. They'll instead act as a bridge to that router, meaning the router is the one who gives out the IP addresses, not the ABS.
Originally posted by ddouglas:
if i told you, i'd have to kill you
I'd like to see you try
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