Wireless LAN

[ButchaTinker]

Hi,

is there any recommendation what the maximum number of clients associated to one access point (cisco Aironet 340)should be? There is no theoretical limitation.
As I understand this technologie the associated clients share the 11Mps, or? So if you have more than 10 clients connetced to one access point working is really slow.
Thanks for your help

 

[spidey07]

I am not aware of any maximum limit.

However, that is the problem with wireless. It is a shared 11 meg segment (sometimes less). We normally uses it in a point-to-point configuration to join buildings until the fiber gets run.

Treat it like a single ethernet hub in terms of performance. If 10 people are moving a lot of data then performance will suffer. If 50 people don't do much other than E-mail, then the performance should be good.

You could also call the CISCO Technical Assistance Center for more definative answers.

spidy

 

[Maximus1]

I'm sitting in a Cisco Wireless class as I write this message. We just went over this yesterday. Spidey is correct, the AP should be treated as a single 10Mb half duplex hub. The number of uses you would put on one of these hubs would be the same number to use for the AP.

Also the theoretical limit is supposedly over 2000 users (2079 or something like that). But if you tried to hook up even close to that number, you probably shouldn't even be allowed to touch any computer equipment.