Using Airport extremes for serving Wifi?

[ubersonic]

Hey, quick sit ref, I am a member of a local chess club (I know lol) that meets in a local hotel's function room, the manager asked me last week (as he knew I worked in computers) about getting WiFi in the function room. As that's not really my area I thought I would double check what I've come up with with you fine people.

They can get BT infinity running @ 66MB/s according to BT's line checker, and their function room caters for up to 50 people in conference mode so the would be 50 people connected at once which I believe would quickly overwhelm a standard router but is within the operational limits of an Apple Airport Extreme (basically a WiFi access point on steroids), the benefits of the APE is that it could easily be administered by the managers iPhone so no need for a dedicated computer.

Any ideas/advice? Thanks.

*Edit*

Looking online the Asus RT-AC66U seems good, would that support up to 50 users?

 

[ci_newman]

Connecting 50 people to a single AP in a room is going to cause havoc anyway, too much signal interference for you to be able to get anywhere near saturating the bandwidth.

What is the purpose of the wifi?

 

[ubersonic]

The purpose is to let the people using the conference room access the internet (were not talking 50 odd people streaming HD here just checking email or web browsing so 66MB/s will be fine). From what I've read the APE are fine for this and will happily support that many users tried and tested I was just after some alternatives (I have seen the big Cisco AP's used in McDonalds/etc but guess their expensive).