On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will a DSL (6.0Mbps down/384kbps up) be sufficient to support, say two > classrooms (about 80 students on two 11g APs) and 1/2 dozen office desktops?
it really all depends on the nature of the traffic. if your users are mostly bringing traffic inward (displaying web pages or incoming ftp) along with normal e-mail then you will be fine. on the other hand, if even one user transfers a large file (or sends an e-mail with a huge attachment) then the outgoing traffic will literally kill the incomming flow for all the other users. i'm not sure of the technical details on why this type of DSL service behaves this way, but we're also in northern California and operating fewer users on a wireless network. if you can assure yourself that the traffic will be truly asymmetrical in nature or install a box to throttle your outgoing then you'll be ok. if the traffic isn't nice to the ADSL circuit, then it will feel slower than a 384/384 fractional T1. -ron _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
