1. General rule of thumb I've been told is 20 clients per AP. Wireless is like being on a large hub, and performance falls exponentially (logarithmically?) with the number of clients.
2. Yes 3. Either way will work. The real challenge is most clients don't give you any way at all to choose which AP to talk to if more than one is in range. Let's put it this way: I haven't seen one that *will* let you choose the AP - you give the client the SSID and it chooses the strongest signal. 4. Yes. A Linksys will fall on it's face @ about 10 or 15 clients. Same goes for any and all of the really cheap stuff (Linksys, Netgear, Belkin, Dlink). BTW 45 wireless clients is *not* a small deployment. 5. You really really really don't want one of those $50 Best Buy pieces of $*(# for this Matt Plahtinsky wrote: > 1. With only doing web browsing do you think one access point should > be enough? Without testing the load I know this is not really a good > question... but is there a general rule of thumb? > > 2. If I need to add more access points how do I get them to work on > the same network? Same SSID? > > 3. If I have multiple wireless AP's do I want them on different > channels but same SSID? or Same Channel and same SSID? > > 4. Is there an advantage to getting an Cisco Aironet vs say a > Linksys for a small deploy like this if I don't need to centrally > manage them and don't need all the extra bells and whistles. > > 5. IP addresses and roaming... How best to do this if I go the > Linksys route? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
