Can you track the usage through the system? Not just speed tests from a site.
I see overall slowdowns out here from a couple of probable causes. One is, overall usage of the entire band, my systems and those of my competitors. It causes all noise to go up. Another is that some of my customers have really bad installations. Trees in the way, just clearing a hill etc. The kind of things you have to do from time to time if you want to make a go of this business. But now, with more people on the ap's, those customers with their massive retrans rates are causing some real issues on some of my APs. We're adding ap's and working to improve link qualities on as many customers as possible. Good luck to you Al! marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Stewart" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Simultaneous connections >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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
