Wifi access point number of clients

[Preetilatha]

HI all,
I created a wifi access point with Rpi3. The number of devices that can be connected to the wifi access point is only 5 .
How to increase the number of clients connected to wifi access point?


Thanks in advance

[SurferTim]

I haven't tried connecting that many clients, but what indication do you get that the RPi will not accept any more client associations?
New clients don't see the SSID?
See the SSID but won't associate?
Associate but don't get network settings?

[DougieLawson]

What's the range of addresses in your dnsmasq config?

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 dhcp-range=192.168.3.14,192.168.3.44,255.255.255.0,24h

[Preetilatha]

When I try to connect the 6th device , SSID is seen but its not getting associated. The wifi hotspot is not in range

I haven't tried connecting that many clients, but what indication do you get that the RPi will not accept any more client associations?
New clients don't see the SSID?
See the SSID but won't associate?
Associate but don't get network settings?

[Preetilatha]

In dhcpd.conf file my configurations are

subnet 192.168.42.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.42.10 192.168.42.50;
option broadcast-address 192.168.42.255;
option routers 192.168.42.1;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option domain-name "local";
option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4;
}

What's the range of addresses in your dnsmasq config?

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 dhcp-range=192.168.3.14,192.168.3.44,255.255.255.0,24h

[SurferTim]

The hostapd service sets a default number of stations to 2007. Six stations should not exceed that.

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# Maximum number of stations allowed in station table. New stations will be
# rejected after the station table is full. IEEE 802.11 has a limit of 2007
# different association IDs, so this number should not be larger than that.
# (default: 2007)
max_num_sta=255

https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/hostapd/hostapd.conf

[Preetilatha]

HI,
Can I use external wifi adapter to increase the no of clients. If so, which wifi adapter can I use?

[jamesh]

This is not an adaptor problem, but a configuration one I think, but you could try a USB adaptor just to see if it makes a difference.

[SurferTim]

Did you try adding this to /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf?

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max_num_sta=100

[hanene]

i have the same problem , can i know if you have found a solution ?

[mina]

No solution yet. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 5#p1479247