Maximum number of clients who can support a AP

Hi. Somebody knows as it is the maximum number of clients who can support a
AP 802.11b to give service of access to Internet?. Thanks.

Sebas wrote:

> Hi. Somebody knows as it is the maximum number of clients who can support a
> AP 802.11b to give service of access to Internet?. Thanks.
>
>

Depends on the WAP. My Linksys BEFW11S4 claims to support 32, IIRC.
But remember that the bandwidth available is shared by all those
wireless clients -- if you have 32 users downloading concurrently,
they may all be yelling at you for giving them ~5 KB/s on what they
thought was an 11 Mb/s segment.
--
Cheers, Bob

In article <bmk6uo$n2f76$(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Hi. Somebody knows as it is the maximum number of clients who can support a
> AP 802.11b to give service of access to Internet?. Thanks.
>
>
>
It depends on the AP. Some have "hard-coded" limits. Others will be
limited only by the number DHCP-assigned IP addresses they have
available, or by the horsepower of the AP itself. In practice, an
802.11b AP will be bandwidth saturated before any significant number of
concurrent users is reached.


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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:14:42 -0700, Jawn <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>In article <bmk6uo$n2f76$(E-Mail Removed)>,
>(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> Hi. Somebody knows as it is the maximum number of clients who can support a
>> AP 802.11b to give service of access to Internet?. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>It depends on the AP. Some have "hard-coded" limits. Others will be
>limited only by the number DHCP-assigned IP addresses they have
>available, or by the horsepower of the AP itself. In practice, an
>802.11b AP will be bandwidth saturated before any significant number of
>concurrent users is reached.
That being around 253 users.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
f/(E-Mail Removed) says...

> >It depends on the AP. Some have "hard-coded" limits. Others will be
> >limited only by the number DHCP-assigned IP addresses they have
> >available, or by the horsepower of the AP itself. In practice, an
> >802.11b AP will be bandwidth saturated before any significant number of
> >concurrent users is reached.
> That being around 253 users.


Again, it depends on the AP, and how it is configured. Not all of them
are limited to a class C network.

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5 KBytes I suppose, not?. I Planning to construct the AP with a Linux or
FreeBSD box , that I supose will provide more power and flexibility, but I
would like to know if the segment will be left dead with 100 users.

Sorry for my "Google translator" english.



"Bob WIllard" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje
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> Sebas wrote:
>
> > Hi. Somebody knows as it is the maximum number of clients who can
support a
> > AP 802.11b to give service of access to Internet?. Thanks.
> >
> >
>
> Depends on the WAP. My Linksys BEFW11S4 claims to support 32, IIRC.
> But remember that the bandwidth available is shared by all those
> wireless clients -- if you have 32 users downloading concurrently,
> they may all be yelling at you for giving them ~5 KB/s on what they
> thought was an 11 Mb/s segment.
> --
> Cheers, Bob
>

Sebas wrote:

> 5 KBytes I suppose, not?. I Planning to construct the AP with a Linux or
> FreeBSD box , that I supose will provide more power and flexibility, but I
> would like to know if the segment will be left dead with 100 users.
>
> Sorry for my "Google translator" english.
>
>
>
> "Bob WIllard" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje
> news:G5ijb.777568$YN5.760907@sccrnsc01...
>
>>Sebas wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi. Somebody knows as it is the maximum number of clients who can
>
> support a
>
>>>AP 802.11b to give service of access to Internet?. Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Depends on the WAP. My Linksys BEFW11S4 claims to support 32, IIRC.
>>But remember that the bandwidth available is shared by all those
>>wireless clients -- if you have 32 users downloading concurrently,
>>they may all be yelling at you for giving them ~5 KB/s on what they
>>thought was an 11 Mb/s segment.
>>--
>>Cheers, Bob
>>
>
>
>

The OP is interested in using a wireless router to access the 'net.
Since a typical cable modem supplies 1.5 Mb/s for DL's, or ~150 KB/s,
then 150 KB/s when 32 users are concurrently DL'ing means ~5 KB/s
for each user.
--
Cheers, Bob

Sebas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> 5 KBytes I suppose, not?. I Planning to construct the AP with a Linux or
> FreeBSD box , that I supose will provide more power and flexibility, but I
> would like to know if the segment will be left dead with 100 users.

Users doing what?
Downloading mpegs, certainly.

Reading ebooks from a central server, no.

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Is for a general purpose access to Internet. The objetive is to create a
ISP wireless for countryside.



"Ian Stirling" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje
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> Sebas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > 5 KBytes I suppose, not?. I Planning to construct the AP with a Linux
or
> > FreeBSD box , that I supose will provide more power and flexibility, but
I
> > would like to know if the segment will be left dead with 100 users.
>
> Users doing what?
> Downloading mpegs, certainly.
>
> Reading ebooks from a central server, no.
>
> --
> http://inquisitor.i.am/ | private.php?do=newpm&u= | Ian
Stirling.
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> Two parrots sitting on a perch. One asks the other, "Can you smell fish?"

Why do you want to use 802.11b? There are many other options out there that
were DESIGNED for ISPs.

"Sebas" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bmmrhm$o49i4$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is for a general purpose access to Internet. The objetive is to create a
> ISP wireless for countryside.
>
>
>
> "Ian Stirling" <(E-Mail Removed)> escribió en el mensaje
> news:bmmkfn$nm$2$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Sebas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > > 5 KBytes I suppose, not?. I Planning to construct the AP with a Linux
> or
> > > FreeBSD box , that I supose will provide more power and flexibility,
but
> I
> > > would like to know if the segment will be left dead with 100 users.
> >
> > Users doing what?
> > Downloading mpegs, certainly.
> >
> > Reading ebooks from a central server, no.
> >
> > --
> > http://inquisitor.i.am/ | private.php?do=newpm&u= | Ian
> Stirling.
>
> ---------------------------+-------------------------+--------------------
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> > Two parrots sitting on a perch. One asks the other, "Can you smell
fish?"
>
>