Comparison of wireless hotspot capacities of MoodleBox on different R Pi models

Ratna

Hi all
Can somebody make a rough statement comparing the wireless hotspot capacities of MoodleBox on different R Pi models? I mean the number wireless clients connected to a MoodleBox at any given time and their connection speeds, if they differ, for the same MoodleBox, say 4.9 or 4.10.

Nicolas

AFAIK, this (unfortunately) did not change over the last months (years?). The wireless chip on all the RPi models supported for MoodleBox (i.e. 3B, 3B+, 4B, 400, 5, 500) has its driver updated, though without progress regarding the max number of the clients (currently stated as 19). If anything had changed, it would have been mentioned in the release notes.

Sources: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/tree/bookworm/debian/config/brcm80211/cypress

Ratna

Nicolas This is what I expected from the various discussions on this site. Thanks for confirming.

In our current application this is not a disadvantage. It is about a portable MoodleBox. The teacher brings it to the classroom. The students work on the devices they have. Due to various limitations, we don't expect more than a handful of active devices at any given time. So a lower spec R Pi will be sufficient, lowering the cost and giving longer duration of operation from a power bank.