What happens when you have too many wi-fi devices connected to the wireless router?

Question

please can someone help

Answer 1

Depends on the router. Some are hard coded to only allow "x" number of IP addressees behind their NAT. Some aren't.

Bottom line, $75 consumer routers don't have very much memory or a very powerful CPU so they may have issues keeping track of many NAT sessions. NAT is the killer. NAT = Network Address Translation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_add...

Answer 2

Ussally the max is 10 but think of it like this if you have a cup of water and you have one staw you can have as much water as you want . The more straw you add to the cup the less and less water your straw will get at once. I bottle neck the bandwith so it will slow down your network. But if you have say a 55 gallon drum every one will get enough. Might want to buy a better router or faster internet

Answer 3

It may be a bit slower, but it should work OK.
Theoretically it can handle around 256 concurrent connections, but I certainly would not like to work on such a network