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Re:The Hack Day Manifesto by cbetta on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @10:23AM (#3822263)
20/30 people on a regular router that has an IP range of 255 IPs will quite often fall over, I've seen it happen more than once.
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Re:The Hack Day Manifesto by Leeky on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:01AM (#3822451)
The issue is mainly that domestic routers NAT tables tend to overflow with that many users on them.

Either this causes them to reboot (if they're crappy) or truncate the table, killing the oldest connection.

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Re:The Hack Day Manifesto by markng on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @10:27AM (#3822286)
Also, that's mostly when you don't tell people "hey, can you not put your iPhones and Android mobile phones on the wireless?"
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Re:The Hack Day Manifesto by markng on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @10:26AM (#3822280)
right, I'm not so sure that's because of DHCP, though.
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Re:The Hack Day Manifesto by danw on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:04AM (#3822472)
DHCP pool being exhausted or NAT table getting full are the two main problems I've seen at hackdays
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