Hi, I'm trying to expand on a current hardware platform which includes: Network card: EMP-8602 6G: 802.11a/b/g 400mW High Power mini PCI Card Antenna: 1 x 8 dBi Fiberglass Omni N Female Board: Soekris Net4801
Here are the issues: I am interested in maximizing range over a flat, concentric circle area - I want the biggest radius possible. I have a relatively large space to cover. I want to maximize throughput -- in internal tests, I've seen about 2.2MB/s cumulatively, testing with a single client downloading a large binary file and with several clients downloading a large binary simultaneously. This is the crux of the issue -- wifi usage is generally about several clients downloading small files at different times, so you can support relatively large numbers of connected clients without throughput bogging down. Since usecase is specifically about several people downloading large files at the same time, it's very affected by WiFi's theoretical and practical throughput limits. There's a chance I'm CPU limited on the Soekris board with several clients connected at once -- this might be affecting our practical throughput limits. I want to deal with the 802.11b/g situation: I'd like to mitigate the effect of a b client connecting to the network. So far the proposed solution is two wifi cards per access point: one pinned at G (which b clients won't see), the other supporting B and G. Any suggestions to deal with the above, additional gotchas we may not have thought of, etc. Kati -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
