The maximum number of hosts per class B network is 65536.
class A ip has 16777216 host but valid hosts are only 16777214.(2^24-2)So answer is 16777214 hosts
If you need to divide it up into the maximum number of subnets containing at least 500 hosts each, you should use a /23 subnet mask. This will provide you with 128 networks of 510 hosts each. If you used a /24 mask, you would be limited to 254 hosts. Similarly, a /22 mask would be wasteful, allowing you 1022 hosts.
<network-number>.255.255 e.g. 127.0.255.255
16 384 networks are available in Class B network.
Hosts
class A supports maximum number of hosts. | | | | | <------network------><--------------------------------hosts------------------------------------>
Each network supports a maximum of 16,777,214 (2 24 -2) hosts per network
254
The number of hosts in a classfull class A network with no subnetting is 16,777,214
14
254 - a class C subnet uses 8 bits for the hosts and 0 and 255 are reserved.
16 000 000
62
62 hosts.
A class A network has more IP addresses - you can connect more hosts on it.A class C network has 256 IP addresses (of which you can use 254), a class B network about 65,000, a class A network about 17 million.More specifically, a Class A network can have 16,777,214 usable host addresses per network whereas a Class B network can have 65,6534 usable host addresses per network.Another advantage is the ridiculous amounts of subnetting you can do. For example, in a Class C network, you can't borrow the same number of bits as you can with a Class A because you only have the last octet to work with for the host portion. With a Class A network, the last three octets are the entire host portion, so you have 24 bits to work with for subnetting (technically 23 since you can't subnet down through all available bits and have no bits left for hosts =p). Due to the amount of subnets you can have and the 16+ million hosts you can potentially have on the same network, Class A networks are reserved for super big applications (ISPs and gigantic companies).
that gives you 16 subnets with 14 usable IPs for hosts that is because one is for subnet and one for broadcas in that subnet for example: 192.168.1.0/28 - subnet number 192.168.1.15 -broadcast number usable IPs for hosts - IPs between them that is 14
255.255.252.0