Re: [BAWUG] Throughput question - 802.11b

[S Woodside]

What happens is very similar to what happens on a shared 10 Mbps 
ethernet bus (in fact the sharing protocol is the same CSMA/CD). The 
maximum available rate would typically be divided by the number of 
users. Reality is probably not quite that good. But most of the time 
the backhaul is so much slower than the Wi-Fi bandwidth that it doesn't 
matter.
If you want to maximize bandwidth, use multiple radios on different 
frequencies.

simon

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:17  PM, Bulk John wrote:

I've been reading postings on this list and I found many eye opening 
questions and answers.
Though one question I had and still remaining is that the throughput 
changes when the number of clients to an AP increases.
Can anyone shed me a light on this?
When it can be assumed that the each clients get about same signal 
strength, how many clients would it take to see the throughput changes 
beginning to occur between AP and connected clients.
If there is such bottleneck, what would causing this?
Does it have anything to do with number of channels available on the 
AP?

Many thanks in advance,

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