Wireless Access Point Limits???

[randym431]

I guess I dont get it, yet. If you have a wireless access point, hooked to a router, how many wireless things can you use at once with the one wireless access point? Could you have 3 or 4 laptops going at once? Is there a limit on how many devices the AP can take on? (its all new to me, I'm use to wired routers and devices)

 

[AFB]

3-4 would be fine.

 

[JackMDS]

The limit in many AP is 256 computers.

Functionally, it depends.

To maintain a decent Internet surfing you need at least stable 1-2Mb/s.

So if you have an 802.11gSuper that yields 40Mb/sec. many people can surf at the same time. (You can do the extrapolation to other ?Speeds? as fit).

As for intensive File Transfer see the post above.

 

[randym431]

So if you have, say, 3 laptops, they can all transmit at the same time? How does the AP keep it straight? In my wired router, each hooked device needs its own ip from the router. With wireless AP, does it use ip's, or what keeps things separated?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: randym431
So if you have, say, 3 laptops, they can all transmit at the same time? How does the AP keep it straight? In my wired router, each hooked device needs its own ip from the router. With wireless AP, does it use ip's, or what keeps things separated?

Each laptop still has their own IP's to go along with their MAC addresses, so the AP has no problem "keeping them straight", just like wired.