What's a reasonable expectation for # of devices?
My theory is households with 20-30 wi-fi devices connected to their Internet setup is fairly common nowadays, due to work-from-home and the plethora of wi-fi devices people are installing. Is my theory wrong? Cox says I have too many devices, so I thought I'd ask. Here's my situation...
I have Cox "Internet Ultimate 300" Internet (no phone or TV), and am experiencing lots of intermittent loss of connectivity -- multiple short outages per day. I'm trying to diagnose this via another thread on these forums, but one thing I often see here is people are told "you have too many devices on your network". So, my question is "What is a reasonable number of devices that can be supported?"
I have a Netgear CM1200 cable modem + a 2-node Orbi mesh wi-fi -- this is a recent upgrade from my prior configuration of Cox Panoramic cable modem with built-in wi-fi -- I had the same connectivity issues then, and a Cox tech came to visit and strongly recommended I dump the Cox equipment & upgrade, so I did. I have about 25 devices connected via wi-fi and 3 via direct Ethernet connection. The wi-fi devices include (not all of them are always concurrently connected): 2 TVs, 1 Fire TV stick, 4 laptops, 3 iPhones, 4 Amazon Echos, 4 Ring cameras, 2 other security cameras (note the security cameras do NOT record continually; only when motion is detected, which isn't that often), 2 printers, 2 Nest thermostats, and 1 garage door opener sensor. As you can see, these aren't unusual devices. Are my expectations too high?