[c-nsp] Question about Cisco AIR-AP 1200 series access point?

[Ryan O'Connell]

On 11/02/2005 12:21, Kristofer Sigurdsson wrote:

>This all depends on the quality of service you wish to provide.  If
>you have the b version, you have 11 Mbit/s, which means actual throughput
>of max 6 Mbit/s.  If you have, say, 10 users, each one gets 600 Kbit/s.  If
>you have 30 users, each one gets 200 Kbit/s...
>The 802.11x wireless standards work in timeslots, so even if a user is idle,
>he still gets his timeslot, which is why you have to divide the bandwidth
>like this.
>

 802.11 doesn't work like this at all. Like (shared) Ethernet - if 
you're idle, you don't use (much) bandwidth. (Some is used for hello 
packets, but very little)

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