Asus RT-AC3200 Maximum number of DHCP clients/addresses

[Nigma]

Hi,

I have a fairly large number of devices in my set-up over 100 and the router as shipped by default supports DHCP for 253 clients.. i.e. 192.168.0.2 - > 192.168.0.254. Is it possible to use a different IP address range that will enable me to support more clients, and more importantly will the report be able issue the addresses and route as expected ?

Most of these devices are very low/next to zero traffic most of the time but need to active internet connection so I'm not concerned about overall throughput.

Thanks
Anand

 

[L&LD]

Not without breaking some or all features and functionality.

If you need a router with more than 253 clients or so, you will need to look into a commercial product. No consumer router I know will help.

I am assuming these are wireless clients that you're asking about too? Even with little to zero traffic, putting more than about 50 clients on a single wireless router will make most routers very unstable.

 

[Nigma]

Not without breaking some or all features and functionality.

I am assuming these are wireless clients that you're asking about too? Even with little to zero traffic, putting more than about 50 clients on a single wireless router will make most routers very unstable.

It's a mix of wireless and wired. Does that fact these are split over the three bands help somewhat ? Assume the limitation is more to do with the wireless than the ability of the router to route signals ?

 

[RMerlin]

Parts of the firmware aren't really designed to handle subnets larger than a /24 - networkmap for instance has portions harcoded to a /24.

For such a large number of devices, I recommend using a business-oriented device as your router, and possibly only use those Asus gateways as APs.

 

[System Error Message]

you could use tomato. Non consumer routers handle it much much better though and are much better at routing.