Wireless access point - How much can it push?

Dr Zoidberg · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:46

If i wanted to run a flash video, say about the size of videos on YouTube but in better quality than those,
a bit rate calculator on adobes site says such a quality flash video would need close to 500Kbps,
How many PC's would be able to connect to the same wireless access points and play a video of this quality at the same time (not the same video) ?

Burnsy2023 · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:49

I think it will dependant on the amount of connections your WAP can support rather than a bandwidth issue.

PistolPete · 1 Feb 2009 at 17:06

And the type of connection - 802.11b/g/n.

norm · 1 Feb 2009 at 20:22

At a push on 802.11g you could probably get 40 concurrent connections under optimum conditions, with there being ~20mbits bandwidth available.

Although I wonder what the potential is for IP Multicast across wireless. That'd only take up 500kbps bandwidth with limitless clients.

Dr Zoidberg · 2 Feb 2009 at 10:03

It is g, i will look in to the access point specs to see if there is a limit on connections,

40 is many more than i thought would be possible, conditions are never optimum, but getting 20 off of an access point will be more than enough.

Thanks