All,
We have noticed that our Orinoco AP will light up the 100Mbps light on our router and that our APPO's will only light up the 10Mbps light. What does that mean for the clients coming into our AP's? Can the Orinoco handle 10x more clients that the APPO?
No.
The fastest modulation speed of a 802.11b wireless network is 11Mbps. Due to overhead (inter frame pauses, acks, packet header, etc), the maximum theoretical throughput is ~70% of 11Mbps.
In real life, with good signal quality, you can't expect more than about 4,5-5Mbps effective throughput on the wireless side. A 10Mbps ethernet port is perfectly sufficient for handling the traffic going to and from the access point, so it doesn't really matter whether the ethernet port on an AP is 10 or 100Mbps (although you might see a tiny bit lower latency with 100Mbps, but the difference is miniscule).
-- LarsG
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