hi all,
I have a small office that I am trying to improve the wifi connectivity of, in particular the ability of our network to support many devices at once (>25-30 802.11AC devices). The place is fairly small (about 1000 sq. feet with tall 20 ft. ceilings) without any walls. Our router is in a "loft" location at about 16 feet within line of sight of all devices. This is our current router (https://www.linksys.com/us/wireless-routers/mesh-routers/linksys-max-stream-mesh-wifi-6-router-mr7350/p/p-mr7350/) which replaced the Comcast gateway (which is now just used as a modem).
We have a 400/100 Mbps line Comcast business line. While the wifi speeds are fine, once we have lots of devices on the network then things start to get bogged down, with sites taking a while to load and network performance generally dropping. We don't have any connectivity issues and signal strength is fine in the office, which leads me to believe this is just an issue with the number of devices. In addition speed tests during peak load seem fine, but actually getting to the speed test sites get laggy.
We're looking to upgrade our router to something that can perhaps handle this peak load without choking up. The problem is that we don't have ANY ethernet ports anywhere in the office, so whatever we end up with has to rely on wireless connectivity.
I thought about a mesh system, but my understanding is that they only help deliver wifi access to places with weak signal, but we don't really have a weak signal problem, we just have issues with peak load. I could be wrong about this, however.
To provide some context on our staff: we have a pretty skeleton crew (we're a start-up) so we don't have dedicated IT, but we have fairly tech savvy folks who should be able to figure out something a bit more complex than consumer grade plug-and-play stuff. Having said that obviously something that doesn't require days of tinkering and maintenance would be super helpful.
Thank you!
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