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    Wireless access points

    Just wondering if i was to purchase one of these, How many computers can connect to an access point simultaneously (i.e. with an 8 port switch you know you have 8 ports)

    Just someting i have never considered and now need to know.

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    you can connect quite a few , but bear in mind that they usually only have 1 100 meg link into the rest of the network, which is shared between all wireless users. If you have a low of heavy network usage PC's then you will find their network "slow"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick
    you can connect quite a few , but bear in mind that they usually only have 1 100 meg link into the rest of the network, which is shared between all wireless users. If you have a low of heavy network usage PC's then you will find their network "slow"
    Before you get a bottleneck at the LAN-connected side, you'll find the wireless bandwidth is saturated.

    A wireless access point is similar to "hub" technology - it's all shared bandwidth, so even if it's rated, say, 54Mbps (which is the theoretical, very rarely achieved limit), then you have to split this between all the clients.
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    the most clients off any wireless device is summit like 253, but if you need more, just use another access point

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    you'd probably section it off - with a max of 8 using 802.11g - and about 4 with B (if you're sharing files internally) - where if you're not sharing files over a local lan, you can safely increase to around 32 over 802.11b ( *edit* caveat - based on 512k connection - if on 1mb connection, take it down to 10-16 clients per WAP)

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