ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:30 am #44713 Good morning,

I am trying to connect saveral ( more than 8, let's say 100 ) ESP8266 set up as clients to one ESP8266 set up as an access point. I know that this chip in softAP mode can support only 8 connections maximum, but I was wondering wether is possible to assign the same IP address to all my clients, in order to make them appear as 1 device only from the server's point of view. I am considering such a solution because I do not need any feedback from the clients and I only have to broadcast the same information to everyone.
Do you think this could work?
Any other ideas?

Thank you very much for your time

- Mon Apr 04, 2016 9:17 am #44794 I do not think the number of IP addresses is the limit here, but the number of wireless clients; besides, having several devices use the same IP address will make a mess. If you need 100 devices, you could probably spend some money on an AP; or perhaps you could try with a mesh network. Just my two cents.