Many users on 1 WAP

I have an office I support which the users (8 users) are only connected by
wireless to the network. There is NO LAN connection for this office. There
will more users, how or what should I do since we only use 1 WAP?

One Wireless Access Point (AP) can support many users (I recently worked in
an office with an AP on each floor supporting up to around 40 users, although
that was in addition to the wired network). The main points to consider are:

1. How much bandwidth does each user need (i.e. what applications are they
accessing?)
2. My understanding is that an AP acts like a hub, not a switch, so
effectively the 11/54/108Mbps that it offers is divided by the number of
active users.

So, for example, if your users are accessing a 2Mbps Internet connection, it
doesn't matter that the 54Mbps of an 802.11g network is divided by the number
of users - it's still faster than the shared Internet connection. If those
users are also doing some heavy file sharing/printing or network intensive
application work, then you might want to consider adding multiple APs to
spread the load.

HTH.

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> I have an office I support which the users (8 users) are only connected by
> wireless to the network. There is NO LAN connection for this office. There
> will more users, how or what should I do since we only use 1 WAP?
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