Determining WLAN Capacity

By Jim Geier When deploying a wireless LAN, you need to know how many users the access points will support. This helps in determining whether the WLAN will bear a specific application. For example, the WLAN may need to handle twenty users accessing the Internet from an airport concourse. Or, hundreds of users may need access to the WLAN from a convention center. Because of the shared medium access protocol of 802.11, however, capacity determination becomes a daunting task. You can't...n

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