Thanks for all of the input. The end user equipment will be mainly hand held scanners together with Forklift mounted terminals. Typical warehouse senario. I don't think that there will be a heavy traffic load but one never knows. If they decide to emply Wireless VOIP phones, that another ball game!
I will keep this forum informed. Does anyone know if a 4 - channel scheme has been deployed and in use? Tim > Hey Michael, > > What a good chance to get some real-world input! > Maybe you could monitor and log the retransmit percentages over > time of your co-located APs on channels 1 and 4 and advise > us if the retransmit percentages go up as the simultaneous traffic loading > on the two APs go up? Channels 1 and 4 (under heavy traffic > conditions) will be colliding with each other. On the other hand, > if your traffic levels remain low-to-moderate, it may work just fine. > > jack > > > Michael Mee wrote: > > > > because of some consulting firms technical influence, > > > > Afaik, the idea of using 4 channels stems from an original whitepaper > found > > here: > > http://www.cirond.com/White_Papers/FourPoint.pdf > > and discussed here: > > http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,1583,a=33684,00.asp > > Seemed reasonable when I read it, but I haven't ANY experience with > trying > > it. > > > > Fwiw, we recently added a node to our Golden Hill network and chose > channel > > 4 because we were already using channels 1 and 11 nearby and every > linksys > > on the planet seems to sit on channel 6. > > > > cheers, michael > > -- > Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. > Author of the WISP Handbook - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs" > http://www.ask-wi.com/book.html > True Vendor-Neutral WISP Training-Troubleshooting-Consulting > http://www.ask-wi.com/services.html > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (818) 227-4220 > > > -- NEU : GMX Internet.FreeDSL Ab sofort DSL-Tarif ohne Grundgeb�hr: http://www.gmx.net/info
