Intel wrote a whitepaper[1] on this very subject. One of the more amusingly counterintuitive findings is that you want each radio to cover not a whole lot of ar

Intel wrote a whitepaper[1] on this very subject. One of the more amusingly counterintuitive findings is that you want each radio to cover not a whole lot of area. No matter how fast the backhaul is, the spectrum can only handle a couple dozen clients, which fills up fast when you've got tens of thousands of attendees. 1: http://www.intel.com/it/pdf/conference-wifi.pdf http://www.intel.com/it/pdf/conference-wifi.pdf