[afnog] Wireless Network

[Sunday Folayan]

Hi Chris and All,

Please feel free to re-use my posts. This is the essence of sharing
knowledge. I now know much more that I do, based on the various responses.

Sunday.

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Hervey Allen wrote:
>>  On 1/5/10 3:46 PM, Benjamin Cobblah wrote:
>> > >  How does one determine the number of users,  a wireless network can
>> >  support. I need to buy a wireless router to support 2000 users
>> within an
>> >  organization. The problem is how do I determine this capability given
>> >  the specs of the wireless router.
>> > >  To put it in a better way "what determines the number of users a
>> >  wireless router can support"
>
> I've posted my answer, Sunday's and Hervey's on our blog (I hope
> that's OK, guys :), and immediately got a helpful suggestion from a
> friend of ours:
>
> "This page has some good answers:
>
> http://serverfault.com/questions/72767/why-is-internet-access-and-wi-fi-always-so-terrible-at-large-tech-conferences
>
>
> It is about tech conferences, but the basic problem of getting lots of
> people on wifi in a single space is covered by the solutions."
>
> [http://blog.aptivate.org/2010/01/05/wireless-networks-for-2000-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-261]
>
>
> Cheers, Chris.