how many clients connect to ap at once?

[Darryl Smith]

I believe what is being said is that once the number of users to an
access point increases, the available bandwidth decreses.

Also since there are keep alive timers in the protocol, there is some
hard limit where it will be impossible to get more users accessing an
access point since there will be nothing but keep-alive packets being
broadcast.

Darrylk

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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, 8 November 2002 12:51 PM
To: 'Matthew G Brown'; 'Darryl Smith'; wireless at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: how many clients connect to ap at once?


Why?

Sincerely
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew G Brown [mailto:wireless at brh.co.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:55 PM
> To: Demarc (tony) 908-996-7995; 'Darryl Smith'; 
> wireless at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: how many clients connect to ap at once?
> 
> 
> But remembering that Quality of service reduces these numbers
> quite substantially.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Demarc (tony) 908-996-7995" <tonylist at wwwbiz.com>
> To: "'Darryl Smith'" <Darryl at radio-active.net.au>;
> <wireless at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:58 AM
> Subject: RE: how many clients connect to ap at once?
> 
> 
> > Darryl
> >
> > This depends on how the AP was designed, for example Cisco and our
> > 180mW AP use higher end processors and can pass traffic for more 
> > clients. With our ReliaWave AP OS that includes MAC layer bandwidth 
> > management and can run on a higher end x86 processor the 
> hard limit is
> > 2048 MACs. For indoor use 200-300 clients is not out of the
> question,
> > for outdoors about 128 would be the max I would want to do.
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Tony Morella
> > Demarc Technology Group
> > Office: 908-996-7995
> > Cell: 908-246-9170
> > Fax: 908-847-0202
> > email: tony at demarctech.com
> > http://www.demarctech.com
> > Open Chat Server http://www.demarctech.com:8000
> > Yahoo IM: tonymorella
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> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
> > > [mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Darryl Smith
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:14 PM
> > > To: wireless at lists.samba.org
> > > Subject: RE: how many clients connect to ap at once?
> > >
> > >
> > > This brings up another interesting question...
> > >
> > > How many clients can connect to an access point period. I believe
> > > that they have done some tests at Dartmouth College in the USA on 
> > > this and found that the number was quite high with some access 
> > > points. I have this thought in the back of my mind that 
> they may not
> > > be too high for the cheaper units - and that this is one
> area where
> > > higher price gives more... As for numbers I am not quite sure
> > >
> > > Darryl
> > >
> > > ---------
> > > Darryl Smith, VK2TDS   POBox 169 Ingleburn NSW 2565 Australia
> > > Mobile Number 0412 929 634 [+61 4 12 929 634 International]
> > > Darryl at radio-active.net.au | www.radio-active.net.au
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
> > > [mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org] On > Behalf Of Joel
> > >
> > > Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 9:22 PM
> > > To: wireless at lists.samba.org
> > > Subject: how many clients connect to ap at once?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi friend,
> > > I want to know if i make a access point on redhat
> > > linux 7.3 using prism2 card then how many clients can
> connect to my
> > > access point at once. is there any limit????
> > >
> > > Thank,
> > > Joel
> > >
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