[MLB-WIRELESS] practical limit to number of clients on a single 802.11G AP.

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

I don't know the total bandwidth figures for G off the top of my head, I'm
guessing around 800KB/sec. (B is around 400-450KB/sec.

You can liken AP's to old Hubs, shared bandwidth, and when they begin to
come under load performance worsens exponentially.

You can find that the person with the weakest signal will get even worse
bandwidth as everyone else will go over the top of them.

What sort of apps will be using this bandwidth?


>I am trying to gauge the number of clients that can connect to and use a
>single 802.11G AP.
>
>Clients would be normal LAN users. I am not expecting that the actual
>bandwidth would be the issue. I am guessing that as the number of clients
>increase contention for bandwidth will limit the actual throughput.
>
>Anyone got a feel/real world stats on the number of clients per AP that is
>reasonable.  When would you need to move to a second/third AP?
>
>regards,
>
>Michael OBrien
>Senior Security Consultant
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