How many clients?

[Tom Perkins]

For more users, I'd wager, than a nominal 11Mbits/sec link could happily 
support. :-)

Regards,
Tom

tom at ceisystems.com wrote:

>One more question, now.  Is the ability of HostAP to serve client
>devices (STAs) a function of the system's speed, or is it just dependant
>solely on interference and contention?  The help has been very useful so
>far!  Thank you all so much!
>
>Thanks all,
>Thomas Cameron
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Theodor Milkov [mailto:zimage at del.bg] 
>Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:01 AM
>To: Thomas Cameron
>Subject: Re: How many clients?
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>On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:12:42PM -0400, tom at ceisystems.com wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>	This is my first post to this list, so I hope it isn't a topic
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>that 
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>>has been covered to death.  I am wondering what the maximum number of 
>>clients a HostAP access point can handle would be.  In other words, 
>>how many WiFi clients can connect to my system?  Doesn anybody have 
>>any specific experience with high numbers?  I'm thinking of the 
>>50-100+ range.
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>Hi,
>
>In a busy wireless environment (too many competitive WISPS) hostap tops
>at about 15 STAs or 2Mbps or 200pps. After exceeding any of these
>parameters we began to see increasing packet loss.
>
>I believe it's mainly the problem with the hidden nodes combined with
>busy neigboring channels (signal at low level but enough to compromise
>RTS).
>
>If only 802.11b was not CSMA/CA... or we have working PCF...
>
>Regerds,
>
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