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I have configured Raspberry Pi 4 as a WiFi hotspot with hostapd on Raspbian Buster. I connected 10 clients, no problem. I want to use it as a Free WiFi.
So, I concern to know how many clients could be connected without any essential problem?

I searched about this title but I got nothing. Additionally, the WLAN Hardware of the Raspberry Pi 4 B is Broadcom BCM43455.

Any experience?
Thanks in advance.

Mohi Rostami
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From the hostapd.conf file :

# 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
Ephemeral
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As mentioned in a related question on the RPi3 the number appears to vary from less than 10 upwards - dependent upon firmware version/config? - see the Raspberry Pi GitHUb issue on the matter. An alternative is to use a USB WiFi adapter.

Pierz
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