[MLB-WIRELESS] A question on associating?

[Kim Hawtin]

Hi Mark,

Mark Aitken wrote:
> In a situation where multiple nodes connect to a single AP where they 
> associate at different speeds,  does the AP revert to the lowest common 
> speed of the entire connected stations or can the 802.11a/b/g protocol 
> handle multiple simultaneous associations of different speeds?

Depends on the AP, some you can limit to only allow clients to connect at
given speeds or at specific modes, 802.11b or 802.11g, etc.

Some B/G APs can have clients connect on both B and G at the same time,
and those clients are blissfully unaware of the other clients connected
at the other speeds...

These APs will try to slice up the talk time to those APs at B or G at
the connected speeds, but retransmissions become a real problem.

To the point where its better to run two APs on the same channel, one
on B and one on G...

regards,

Kim
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Operating Systems, Services and Operations
Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide
kim.hawtin at adelaide.edu.au

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