Hello Community,

i am a eventfotograf from Germany and I have a Photobooth system, in which a router with OpenWRT runs. The guests should connect themselves with the WLAN from OpwnWRT and then the pictures can be seen.

This also works great. But how can I configure OpenWRT, which can be even more than ~350 guests at the same time connect?

My current configuration:

Interface - LAN:
IPv4 address: 192.168.1.1
IPv4 netmask: 255.255.255.0

DHCP Server:
Start: 10
Limit: 240
Leas time: 1h

Sorry for my english...

Best regards,
Lars

Use a different lan segment for your clients.
192.168.1.x allows only 255 addresses.

Something like:

IPv4 address: 10.0.0.1
IPv4 netmask: 255.255.254.0

This will give you 512 addresses..
Change the netmask if you need even more.

Many Thanks!

Do I have to change start and limit ?

Yes, limit needs to be increased.

Start is just to reserve some addresses that will not be issued by DHCP, in case you have a printer, server, etc. that you want to use a static address.

OK. Many thanks for fast help !

Keep in mind that no single wlan chip can actually serve that many concurrent clients wirelessly, the hard limit is more in the 30-40 range (for concurrently connected STA clients).

(Last edited by slh on 18 Mar 2017, 20:03)

you have increase the limit to the number of clients/devices.