Is there a way to provide user-specific passwords for Wi-Fi, so that different users have different passwords?
I'd like to provide each user with a different password for my Wi-Fi connection.
At work, we have two wireless networks (e.g., Work1 Work2); the Work2 is used downstairs and Work1 is used upstairs. However, both are notoriously slow. The connection is better when we are wired in, but unfortunately due to our building being very old and our company growing very fast, most employees are not seated near the walls where the ethernet cables are.
I had Cox, our ISP, run a bandwidth utilization test and it doesn't seem like we are capping out on upstream/downstream, which leads me to believe that it's strictly an issue with the wireless networks (which were implemented before I got there).
The wireless networks are both Apple Airport Extremes. Is there anything I can do to improve the situation for everyone?
Speeds are extremely slow, and sometimes drops out.
We've got a Draytek 2829VN Wifi router and I'm wondering how many concurrent connections I should expect a router of this kind to cope with? We are looking to connect 60 iPads!
I'd also be interested in knowing what might happen when it starts to reach capacity?
Not looking for details specifically for this model, but in general.
Thanks!
UPDATE
Thanks for everyone's help!
We ended up going with 3 wired Cisco AP's, sharing a single SSID across 3 channels. The venue already has WiFi running across channels 1,6 & 11 (the default it seems) so we've opted for channels 3, 8, and 13 which seems to be working very well, with around 20 iPads per AP.
The iPads then picked up the signal almost immediately, something they were taking in excess of 2 minutes to do when running on channels 1,6,11 due to interference.
Lesson learned : don't assume that setting up WiFi for large numbers of people is easy!
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