more than 10 PC's

[nokevin]

Hi All, is there a WAP on the market that can run more than 10 10 wireless PC's

Thanks Steve

[james]

Most enterprise grade APs should handle that kind of load just fine. Two that I've worked with before are the Orinoco AP-2000 and the Enterasys Roamabout R2; they are nice pieces of equipment with many features. I've never had a SOHO type AP with more than 10 people, so I'm not sure how well they would work under those conditions. Are there any other details you can give about the setup that might help?

[M/Q]

I would like to expand a little on what james asked. The other information that would be important to know is what applications the clients will be using. That along with what band you are considering will give you a rough idea as to how the actual throughput bandwidth will divide up. It is one matter if it is just file sharing and Internet access. But completely another if you are lets say running video streaming applications which are bandwidth intensive or even VOIP which is as well. The other consideration will be where the clients will be located in the coverge area of the AP. The signal strength to each client will have an impact on useable bandwidth as well. One last thing to consider and it is the most nebulous one, is how often all the clients will be accessing or using the most bandwidth intensive activity at the same time.

Most enterprise grade AP (Cisco, Proxim, 3Com) will handle that many clients. One other thing to consider is the system. You will be wise to stick with the same vendor throughout the active network, it IMHO is more important than which one it is.

[nokevin]

I am waiting for 2Mb satellite Internet to be installed at my home, where I live there is aprox. 3000 houses below me. What I want to do is supply as many as poss. with wireless Internet. The contract I have with the sat co. allows me to charge people for this so I do not want them having it free as the sat equipment has cost me a fortune and the monthly charge is a small fortune. I have ordered most of the equipment for my end just as a starter, I am going to charge the people minimum for installation, and so I hope it will all go well. I contacted my IP to see if this was possible to do the same via DSL but its not allowed. I want to keep everything as legal as poss. So the question is how can I supply as many homes as poss. with wireless internet, as for what they will be doing I don’t know I will have to put on there contract no heavy downloads or streaming video but I don’t see how I can control this. Any suggestions?

Thanks Steve

[james]

What kind of relationship are you planning on having with the end user... is it friendly and they're getting a good deal or is it business-like and they expect quality service 24/7? Over what kind of distance are you planning on having this wireless link? Could you paint a little better picture of the area, where are the 3000 houses in proximity to you? It sounds to me like you will probably want to look into something besides 2.4 GHz

[M/Q]

I see the number of clients maxing out at about 50. Under normal network usage, that is about all you are going to be able supply sufficient bandwidth to. A T1 runs about 1.5mb and I usually keep the number of Internet access clients to around 50, before they start complaining.

Is the satellite feed symmetrical or have different up and down bandwidths?

As usual James brings up a good point that I will emphasize, as it is very important. A image of the area considered would help a lot, including all physical interferences.

I also would be interested in know what equipment you have already? As well as your opinion or ideas as to how you were going to supply the clients the wireless access. It helps to get the ball rolling.

[nokevin]

"Is the satellite feed symmetrical or have different up and down bandwidths?"
Don’t know, it does not give me any info on that. What is the difference? I have a choice of three different sat Internet co’s I can use.
On the info it state's "guarantee unlimited bandwidth with more than 99.9% up time"

I have 3 x 180 waveguide antennas, three x high output WAP & a selection of directional antennas & wireless PCI cards to try to se what gives me the best signal. As for physical interferences nothing in the way, all direct line of sight. Distance 200m min 6Klm max aprox

[nokevin]

Originally posted by james
It sounds to me like you will probably want to look into something besides 2.4 GHz

Like what ???, more info please

Thanks Steve

[james]

By a frequency other than 2.4 GHz I am mainly refering to 802.11a (5 GHz band). Symetrical means that upload and download speeds are the same, i.e. your connection is 2 Mbps down so is it also 2 Mbps up? You still need to answer the original questions before we can go any further really.

[M/Q]

Ditto again, I also would like to recommend that you use the search function on each of the forums and use WLAN and hotspots as search words. There is a wealth of knowledges already written about this very subject. A for instance is:

http://forums.wi-fiplanet.com/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=78674&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

[nokevin]

Originally posted by james
You still need to answer the original questions before we can go any further really.

Our phone co. charge 36 € a month for 256kb adsl, i was thinking of charging 10€ or 15€ per month, so it going to be done on a cheap basis but as a business

Thanks

Steve