Hi Olaf,
thank you for posting about your use case and I'm looking forward to your project post. (I love to see the PirateBox in educational manner).
About your question: it depends (:P)
The box in the default configuration can handle up to 200 given IP adresses at the same time.
But the question is what these devices do. If all of them try to download a HD movie, that will fail.
About 30 persons writing on the chatbox, can make a bad user experience, because of a slow response.
Uploading and downloading usually gets slower if more people do it.
In addition the USB Port is limited at around 20MB/s .. and that rate drops quickly, if it turns from linear to kind of "random access" without buffering.
I guess, about 30-40 people is no problem, if they download only small files (~5-10MB).
You can create a somehow better speed using a TPLink WR1043ND, but then you need a power source.
I got an email from an art project a few weeks ago, where he hat similar questions- in the end it turned out, he needed downscale his material to normal SD and everything worked out for him.
So, it totally depends on your material and use-case. Issues can maybe solved with a few tricks.
best regards Matthias
thank you for posting about your use case and I'm looking forward to your project post. (I love to see the PirateBox in educational manner).
About your question: it depends (:P)
The box in the default configuration can handle up to 200 given IP adresses at the same time.
But the question is what these devices do. If all of them try to download a HD movie, that will fail.
About 30 persons writing on the chatbox, can make a bad user experience, because of a slow response.
Uploading and downloading usually gets slower if more people do it.
In addition the USB Port is limited at around 20MB/s .. and that rate drops quickly, if it turns from linear to kind of "random access" without buffering.
I guess, about 30-40 people is no problem, if they download only small files (~5-10MB).
You can create a somehow better speed using a TPLink WR1043ND, but then you need a power source.
I got an email from an art project a few weeks ago, where he hat similar questions- in the end it turned out, he needed downscale his material to normal SD and everything worked out for him.
So, it totally depends on your material and use-case. Issues can maybe solved with a few tricks.
best regards Matthias
