How many laptops to a wireless AP?

[Alan Johnson]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I haven't done this myself, but I lurk on a few lists like
> isp-wireless and nanog, and what others have said concurs with the
> above: Quality of the equipment makes a huge difference.  The SOHO
> stuff is designed for a handful of light users.  The commercial stuff
> costs more but can cope with larger groups.
>

This used to be very true in the 11b days as a few manufacturers, Cisco
included, did the 11a/g style CSMA on 11b as a proprietary value-add.  This
was so successful that it became part of the 11a/g specs.  Some vendors even
developed some super sweet polling algorithms (no collisions as clients only
speak when spoken too), the jists of which are part of the WiMAX standard.

But I digress.  I'd stick to Bruce's link as a guide to modern LAN gear.  If
you want to talk WAN, which is what we isp-wireless folks are more concerned
with, we have a whole other world of things to talk about. =)  WiWAN in very
breif: polling is king for point to multi point, but mesh works well with
11a/g(/n?) style CSMA/CD.

-- 
Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
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