E700 concurrent clients

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How many clients can E700 take concurrently.

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Official documentation says 512 clients

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The 512 clients has to do with maximum associations. In real life maximum clients are depended on what kind of service you want to provide.
For example if you want to provide 2 Mbps per client then your AP will serve more clients compared to a scenario when a client must be able to get 20Mbps. Also channel bandwidth, noise (lost packets, retransmited packets etc), airtime must be put in the “equation”.
From my experience in a Resort Hotel enviroment (heavy usage) the E700 and E600 (indoor version of E700) served 160 clients with no complaints from the users.

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FWIW, we just used an e700 at a small outdoor music festival, and it performed awesome. Maximum of 67 devices connected, approx 37 of which were connected most of the weekend. Coverage was awesome, speeds were great, and to answer this thread’s question - the e700 will accept 512 concurrent associations, and no obvious problem supporting 37-67 clients at our event.

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Hello Ninedd,
I’m starting Hotspot business i selected Cambium Network access point.

  1. Cambium Networks e700 access point. Please can you tell me the distance of coverages. how many kilometers distances.

  2. Cambium Networks e501s access point. Please can you tell me the distance of coverages how many kilomteres distances.

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Hi. This was an outdoor music festival, and at this event most people were within about 150 meters (about 500 feet) and most people were just using their phones/tablets (no external SM’s or antennas). There were also some weekend campers that were a bit farther, probably 20-250 meters (700-800 feet) and again, mostly all of those were just using phones/tablets, and no SM/CPE with any type of external antenna, so we were very pleased with that.

As far as other locations or other gear, I can’t really comment. We haven’t proceeded with Cambium on any other Hotspot or WiFi type business yet. Some of the features seem to require a monthly subscription fee for the cnMaestro X software, and I’m not really sure what is or isn’t included, but that’s kinda had me holding off.

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"Some of the features seem to require a monthly subscription fee for the cnMaestro X software, and I’m not really sure what is or isn’t included, but that’s kinda had me holding off. "

In short, what you are you missing for Pilot/ XV regarding monitoring:

  1. Client Analytics > machine state such as association, authentication > dhcp DNS etc.
  2. Top Application use and which client
  3. Reporting
  4. Clients per SSID overview and usage for a site (I Never understand why they put in the X, because you see that without X in the Client tab or per access point under the details overview). I also think this WLANs tab, should be basic feature
  5. Some best practices regarding security per device
  6. MSP DASHBOARD for better adminisration
  7. API for automation and monitoring alerts triggers
  8. Cambium care pro support

Kind Regards

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