How many concurrent connections can this handle? Can I set it up in an office of @ 50 users who will access it very rarely?
234987
The drive is on your network. It can be accessed from anyone on the network if the drive is mapped to that workstation. You can set permissions on a directory or the whole drive.
234988
It does not work well for even one. I strongly recommend buying another product.
234989
you should be just fine I installed this at a busy office with about 25 users but they are hitting it pretty hard with graphics files and so far no complaints
2280909
They can handle a large number of connections. I have used them in an office setting with about 60 employees. I would suggest you use the UAP-PRO as they are concurrent dual band.
543673
I have office 2007 ent on it and I'm very happy with the performance of Word and Excel. Using the wifi (N router flashed to ddwrt) and the ethernet port (1 gigabit switch) I happy to report good to great performance. Of course the wifi is slower than a cabled connection. My "Server" is 6 core intel 780i with many expensive hardware upgrades (Real RAID etc..) running Vista ultimate but it should work as well as your home network for simple file sharing. happy to answer any other questions.
2216412
I can't give you a definite answer as I have never tried to use the one I have with seven devices but I can tell you what I do know about it. First it depends on whether you mean hard-wired or wirelessly. It only has four wired ports so from that point of view it can only handle four devices. But as a wireless router, although I don't really know what the limit is I don't see why it couldn't handle many devices at once. For example it could assign more than 250 IP addresses on a sub net. E.g. 192.168.2.xxx where xxx could be from 2 to 254 (reserving 1 for the router itself. These could be either manually entered or DHCP could be used. Although with that many devices things might be rather slow. As I say, I've never had that many on at one time, but I have had four with no problems. I hope this answer is some help.
1404145
I do not know--this was so unreliable I have stopped using it. It did not matter what drives I used--none would stay connected. Also, realize you can only use one at a time.
958407
Yes, very limited though and in general this machine has had significant issues communicating with my computers on the network. If I could get rid of it, I would. They also offer no support. I would NOT buy this again.
986167
sorry I will be of no help . this was installed months ago and do not remember all connections. sorry.
1040480
I am skeptical that this is the right firewall for you based on the number of devices. this is a SOHO device (small office home office). It has 4 ports on the back. you can connect hubs to it to support the devices. depending on what type of business this and how heavy they use the network you may want to consider a larger firewall with higher throughput.
542380
Yes it can. You can set up various users so each user is backed up, each computer, many computers, various levels of access, etc. Pw or no pws - your choice. Additionally, internet access via WDCloud. All can be locked down or out. I like it and it's LIGHTNING fast compared to my books, etc.
327882
So far yes , this is the way to go , I tried the round unifi , did ok but with this unit I rarely loose connection .Make sure you get more than one for failover , easy to manage with the unifi interface .
1425874
254 without touching the settings. I think I cut it down to fifty, I'm not sure why. Realisticly, 11 devices have been connected in the last day.
393417
you may have up to 5 users on 2 separate computers for a total of 10. Hope that helps.
763596
Yes, we've had it running over a year in our server room concurrently connected to multiple systems running Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 with no problems. Just make sure to use a strong UPS.
332004
There is no limit. It has 4 ports + the Modem port (lan). It is wireless. I am not sure on the dchp limit inside the box but I think it is 1024. So your limit would be the dhcp limit or if you are using a server, the servrers limit (server does the dhcp) . I have 16 computers conectted, but with a server.
1711442
If you are using it for logging into Windows 8, windows handles the fingerprints for you, so the limitation doesn't affect you. If you use their software to log into other applications then you have a max of 10 users. Product works very accurately and fast.
1872222
The company i work for has a ddwrt based router that supports 40+ devices. And, I wouldn't consider it as nice as this device.Also, this device has the ability to become a public hotspot, with pay-per-use and everything. So I'm guessing it can handle quite a lot.
860489
There are only four possible connections simultaneously. I've ran two body packs and two wireless mics at the same time.