Number of clients on the router

No and no. 

If you use Apple devices: Make sure that you uncheck “Use Private Address”. 

Thanks for the answer!

Hi @rpvilao, 

welcome to our English Community. Nice to meet you here. 

@blablup was so kind to react immediately to your request. Was the information already the solution for you?

If so, please mark the answer of blablup as solution. 

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Loving greetings,

Tobias

Hi @o2_Tobias,

Thanks for reaching out. I am not sure if that’s the solution yet as I experience this issue even before Apple’s private MAC Address feature. My router is pretty old already (probably from 2014 or so), I do have a pool from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.250 so it shouldn’t cut down on the number of connections around 12 that’s for sure… it’s a bit frustrating when we have people over we always have to disconnect some devices in order for them to be able to connect.

Best regards,

Rui

The production date of your o2 Homebox 6641 is shown on the type plate. In general, the device is quite durable. 
Do the problems occur mainly with Apple devices? Then I would look for the cause of the problem in these devices. 
A hardware defect that manifests itself as you describe is difficult for me to imagine. 

That’s the thing, I don’t thing is has to do with Apple devices, this is a problem is had been going on already for quite some time. It just happens that we have more devices now and more people coming over :)

Try to reduce the lease time, to the minimum.

good tip! I still can’t understand how that would explain the fact that by disconnecting a device does the trick for anyone else to be able to connect still! but I will try it :)

@rpvilao 

did you succeed?

Greetings

@o2_Manga I can’t tell because at the moment I don’t have enough devices to test, but I didn’t do anything besides removing the random MAC Addr from my apple devices, which I believe it won’t do much since I had this problem before Apple had this feature.