Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:19:28 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overlapping wireless lans (WAPs) Message-ID: <20020830081928.C3627@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200208300732.JAA12020@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:32:50AM %2B0200 References: <200208300732.JAA12020@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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--da4uJneut+ArUgXk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:32:50AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >=20 > First off excuses for being not quite FreeBSD centric, but I appreciate t= he > expertise here: >=20 > We are using a couple of WAPs made by a Mfgr., named 'Level One'. > It is 802.11b standard. Someone told me yesterday, that each of these > WAPs can only serve 11 clients. I didn't find a note on that anywhere but > I admit that I didn't much care about it until now. Maybe it's a > technology inherent issue (frequency multiplex slots etc etc) It's a function of the amount of storage the AP has dedicated to tracking clients. 11 seems quite low even for a "home" AP. Larger ones typicaly support >1000 clients. > Now we are in the situation that we have to serve 30 notebooks in > one room. I'm thinking of solving it in the following way > and would like to ask whether this is the correct approach: >=20 > Give every WAP a different network name (phys1,phys2,phys3 for example) > and let the notebook users pick from one of these networks. >=20 > From which symptom does one recognize that a WAP has subsumed all its > slots. Am I right with that assumption at all, that there is a=20 > limitation in the number of clients? Probably crappy performance since I suspect the most idle assocation would get the boot. You might be better off just putting the three APs on channels 1, 6, and 11 and giving them the same SSID which would let clients wonder between them. There would be collisions, but forcing users to do it themselves isn't likely to be very popular. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --da4uJneut+ArUgXk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9b4z/XY6L6fI4GtQRAsseAJ9ygFGKpm+IvU8a/d8aMHIYluZHrQCcDjlo KcWtWxqL9tOz800gqR5fDZI= =fzdo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --da4uJneut+ArUgXk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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