WiFi question

[uchau]

Okay B goes about 11mbit. But is that per connection or is that total. In other words does everyone connecting get 11mbits or is it share with everyone else. Also what is the max amount of connections? I'm just curious. thanks

 

[Soybomb]

Shared per channel, and closer to 6-7Mbps in practice. If you need more bandwidth you need to split your users up and put up another AP on another channel. Number of clients that can associate depends on the AP I believe, but its probably not a number you need to worry about unless you're planning to be an isp or something.

 

[HTRednek]

Wifi is shared bandwith therefor the more users the slower the connection. It also never really approaches 11 Mbps in reality. The best I have acheived is 8 with WEP turned off and about 6 with it on. That being said remember 2 things that your wired network that most likely your WAP is attached to tops out an 10Mbps and that for most users the best broadband connection is around 1.1 Mbps. So you won't see the slowdown much while internet surfing. Where you would really see a diifernece is transferring large filesa across your network. More users would slow down a large file transfer.

 

[ktwebb]

Actually there are no 802.11b AP's that will achieve 8 Mbps, including enterprise hardware and it is shared bandwidth. Cisco AP's will get close to that number. Every node you put on the LAN that is supplying traffic cuts your bandwidth in half effectively. For SOHO equipment your doing good if you get over 5 Mbps without WEP.