I know ... there's no easy answer. We have a situation where in the early morning speeds are in the vicinity of 2000 (2.0 meg), and by 4:30 in the afternoon, speeds will drop to 1/4 of that. That says to me that there are a number of people doing pretty steady usage ... but I could be wrong. There may be other factors.
Al ------ At 09:35 AM 10/15/2009 -0700, Marlon K. Schafer wrote: ------- >It's a moving target. It's also dependant on your customer habits. > >Grandma and grandpa customers will allow more per ap than a family with 3 >teenagers. It also changes throughout the day. > >My business customers tend to have more steady usage (people listening to >the radio, 10 people checking email every 5 minutes, chat windows open, >remote computing apps etc.). My home based customers have higher peaks but >use less on a consistent basis. > >Here's an interesting note. We have about 70/30 home vs. business >customers. It might even be 80/20. Our business users today use ALMOST as >much bandwidth from 8 to 5 as my home users use from 6 to 11pm. > >Sorry I'm not able to give you more specific help. >marlon > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Al Stewart" <[email protected]> >To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:21 AM >Subject: [WISPA] Simultaneous connections > > > > Using a 900 AP (like Trango) theoretically allows up to 3000 (3.0 > > meg) bandwidth. But there has to be a limit on how many simultaneous > > connections can go through the AP and maintain bandwidth. At what > > point -- how many using/downloading etc at the same time -- would the > > bandwidth be reduced by usage to below 500 (.5 meg) or lower? There > > has to, logically, be some kind of limit to what the pipe will hande. > > > > We're trying to evaluate our user to AP ratio in real life. > > > > Al > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >WISPA Wants You! Join today! >http://signup.wispa.org/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------- END QUOTE --------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
