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100 devices on EE router?

GoodfellowAdam

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So, we've all seen their full fibre "land a plane" advert and connect 100 devices at once more times than we can remember.

So, why 100 devices? Just a nice catchy number or more to do with the number of DHCP leases their router can actually handle?
 
So, we've all seen their full fibre "land a plane" advert and connect 100 devices at once more times than we can remember.

So, why 100 devices? Just a nice catchy number or more to do with the number of DHCP leases their router can actually handle?
Probably a catchy number to show people how much the connection can handle and let customers compare them to other operators that base their connections on number of devices.
 
A pretty meaningless metric. But I guess the whole point of that ad is to try and demonstrate to a non-technical audience that it's fast enough for pretty much any modern use.

To a more technical user, a couple of video streams and audio stream to demonstrate a gigabit network is pretty weird...
 
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Is it just a software limitation (DHCP leases) or a hardware reason as to why they say the router is limited to 100?

I've not understood why in recent years suddenly there's desire to limit the number of devices a router can handle? Seems arbitrary really.
 
@dazmatic
A single wireless access point will struggle to support more than 30 devices at once.
This is down to latency and handshaking, and the constant are you there, I am here chatter.

EE must have wired the entire house for 100 devices.
 
Having ended up with a 4G EE router, the DHCP was not configurable and limited to 100 leases.
Unfortunately adverts have to be dumbed down. You have people refering to their entire Internet connection as wifi... It might be limited to 100 on purpose - it's a residential offering, limit it to 100, so the Internet connection never gets overloaded..
In reality, you could have as many devices connected to a single Internet connection as you like .. if you can live with slow connection on all devices.. or anticipate only a few are going to send and receive data at anyone time.
To be honest wifi is synonomous with Internet - how many people actually use wired devices these days? So I would say its to do with the number of devices of the wifi.
 
Agree with what others above have suggested, many non-enterprise WiFi systems top out at around 30 clients before congestion sets in. Multiple antennas with separate CPU processing for each and mesh WiFi networks can alleviate these issues.

It can also be down to the capabilities of the router to manage active sessions. If you have several clients doing a lot of peer2peer downloads and sharing, whilst it might not be an issue for bandwidth, the number of active sessions can soon overwhelm a Soho router.
 
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I restrict my DHCP leases to 100 devices on my Draytek and Opnsense but above that range are all the devices where I have given them fixed IP addresses so I could get a full 253 devices connected. Might be worth checking an EE router by connecting a device with a fixed IP just outside the leased range.
 
@dazmatic
A single wireless access point will struggle to support more than 30 devices at once.
This is down to latency and handshaking, and the constant are you there, I am here chatter.

EE must have wired the entire house for 100 devices.
Having worked in TV commercials (ads) before retirement I agree that "dumbed down", as someone said earlier, is the best but very understated description . EE/BT will have commissioned an Ad Agency to make this ofc.
There are several gaffes as they attempt to dumb down, ie the "ATC" asks the plane "... are you on frequency?" That's not in the protocols for ATC radio traffic- anywhere.
As for the net connection, wot a larf, using wifi?? ... a spike of latency or packet loss could have left the ATC behind the actuality where split seconds count.... and so on. These crap "reality" ads make me boil.
This ad is a triumph for laughability rather than creativity. 8)
 
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