I have built a MT AP with a RB532 and a Senao 11mbps 200mw.
How many clients can I connect to this senao? or there is no limit?
It really shouldn't come as a surprise that equipment from different manufacturers perform worse together than equipment from the same manufacturer.We have about 16 aps, one wireless interface on each. The top critical ap have about 80 clients. They not share equally bandwidth maybe cuz there are different manufaturers in 802.11b and who have atheros on the client side get priority over the others.
The main bottleneck in your case is the radio in the ap but your problem sounds more like a network design issue.Our problem at the moment is that every ap, no matter the number of clients connected, get its packet flow rate droping down from times to times. So far Im thinking that what we doing here is an absurd. :/ Its being hard to think on a solution or find the bottle neck... There are no problem for people who open web pages, but who are connected using pppoe cant watch stream and who are playing games gets kicked from servers cuz of high ping peaks. There must have a way to give them a stable connection.
CIR and bandwidth are two different things.Their CIR seems not working as well. Lets say, I would like to see a ap with 80 clients equally sharing bandwidth (CIR working)
Keep in mind with 802.11b the interface is half-duplex. The radio cannot transmit and receive at the same time. So the best case would be under 6 meg then subtract overheads, encryption, retries. Heavy uploads can swamp the apparent download speeds. Then depending on the interface, someone connects at 1 meg - either all fall to 1 meg or the card has to switch to service the low client.If I have 100 clients simultaneously connected (and using net) to an AP.. they have 11mbps/100 of bandwidth eachone, or there is some other limitation, for example they present desconectations ¿??
We have atm the following structure:The main bottleneck in your case is the radio in the ap but your problem sounds more like a network design issue.
Do you by any chance use bridging?
Also keep in mind, that AP have to operate at different air rates. So it uses 11Mbps air rate roughly half of the time it transmits the data.Keep in mind with 802.11b the interface is half-duplex. The radio cannot transmit and receive at the same time. So the best case would be under 6 meg then subtract overheads, encryption, retries. Heavy uploads can swamp the apparent download speeds. Then depending on the interface, someone connects at 1 meg - either all fall to 1 meg or the card has to switch to service the low client.If I have 100 clients simultaneously connected (and using net) to an AP.. they have 11mbps/100 of bandwidth eachone, or there is some other limitation, for example they present desconectations ¿??
in my town there is no cable modem, adls or something like that... there is only dial up, and i'm a small wisp who wants to give people a better alternative to dial up....What download and upload rates (speeds) do you intend to offer your customers (subscribers) and are you intending to provide a high quality service.
The point was that it's almost meaningless, unless you choose polling, to ask how many stations (subscribers) can be connected unless you also state at which transfer rates (speeds) and the desired outcome that you are considering.
Example; If i want my customers to each have 1000 kbit download rate and 500kbit upload rate then out of 6000 possible mbit in aggregated throughput i'll be able to put ( 6000 kbit / ( 1000 kbit + 500 kbit ) ) = 4 without over subscribing the service. If you over subscribe you decrease the probability of maintaining the same level of service.