Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:32:50 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: overlapping wireless lans (WAPs) Message-ID: <200208300732.JAA12020@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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First off excuses for being not quite FreeBSD centric, but I appreciate the expertise here: 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) 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: Give every WAP a different network name (phys1,phys2,phys3 for example) and let the notebook users pick from one of these networks. 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 limitation in the number of clients? I'd appreciate comments. Thank you. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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