In fact you will only get around 6-7Mbps of real "IP" throughput on even a point to point link (due to overhead, frame loss,contention, etc). And yes it will be shared by all users. Hence in a high usage environment you want to have small (low powered) cells, with slight overlaps, so that a minimal number of users are on a single cell. Also you may want to look at per user bandwidth management solutions
Martin Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAThp.com -----Original Message----- From: Adam Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 11 August 2003 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] wireless bandwidth Hi All, Unless I am mistaken, I am of the belief that a wireless network with, for example, an access point and four laptops will give each laptop the full 11Mbps connection (depending on signal strength and quality), and *not* divide the 11Mb between all remote connections due to the fact that it is a switched network. My manager is arguing the contrary. Does anyone know where I can get some information that spells it out so that I can give it to my boss (or learn from my mistakes :) Cheers, Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
