Hi, guys,
We've recently pulled off a pretty decent drone show with tens of drones — everything went smoothly using just one (expensive) MI-MO router. Now, we'd like to scale up. We're aiming for hundreds of drones — 500+, actually. But choosing the right WiFi solution for that is slowly becoming a bit of a nightmare. Everyone says something different.
The nutshell version:
We're talking about 500+ clients on a WiFi network, with a large number of concurrent UDP multicast streams running — and we need it all to run as close to perfectly as possible. The distance from the router/AP antennas can reach up to 250–300 meters.
If you’re familiar with such setups, or if you can offer some insight based on your broader networking experience (e.g. which router, brand, technologies, or wireless standards might help, how many APs, rough setup guidance — mesh, repeater, etc.), we’d be grateful for your input.
#RTK, UDP, Multicast, lots of concurrent low-bandwidth streams (several kB per drone), AP mesh
We've recently pulled off a pretty decent drone show with tens of drones — everything went smoothly using just one (expensive) MI-MO router. Now, we'd like to scale up. We're aiming for hundreds of drones — 500+, actually. But choosing the right WiFi solution for that is slowly becoming a bit of a nightmare. Everyone says something different.
The nutshell version:
We're talking about 500+ clients on a WiFi network, with a large number of concurrent UDP multicast streams running — and we need it all to run as close to perfectly as possible. The distance from the router/AP antennas can reach up to 250–300 meters.
If you’re familiar with such setups, or if you can offer some insight based on your broader networking experience (e.g. which router, brand, technologies, or wireless standards might help, how many APs, rough setup guidance — mesh, repeater, etc.), we’d be grateful for your input.
#RTK, UDP, Multicast, lots of concurrent low-bandwidth streams (several kB per drone), AP mesh
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