How many users will this support?
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: > I am planning to buy 4 Aironet 1200 APs. 1 of them will be root AP and will be > positioned on the roof of the tallest building, and 3 will act as repeaters in > the courtyards. Is there no way to wire all of the AP's? How about using Canopy or Trango to backhaul over 5GHz? There is a performance penalty anytime you use any repeater mode. > In root AP I will have only 802.11 g card (which will run b and g mode). Can you stay in one of the modes? There are potential performance issues running both. > 802.11b cards on the 3 repeating 1200s will be used in AP mode and will have two > 8db omnidirection antennas attached to each one of them Try to use directional antennas all all AP's, If your area is anything like my neighborhood, all the 2.4GHz AP's, Video senders and cordless phones in the neighborhood will interfere with your network. If at all possible, have someone come out with a Spectrum Analyzer and test your RF. I prefer IOS. Frank Keeney ------------------------------------------- Southern California Wireless User Group http://www.socalwug.org -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
