Wireless Router Connections

[divine`]

Will be living in an 8 (yes eight) person shared house for the next year of Uni, and the house is quite big.

It occured to me if everyone is connecting to a router with wires, it could get very messy very fast.


Would a wireless router be able to handle 8 connections?


Or, is there a completely different way of doing it that will work better?

 

[vanandjuanunited]

SHould handle as many as you like. Speed will depend on service and use though.

 

[E1mo]

We have 6 students connected wirelessly on a Linksys WRT54G in our house and it works fine. The Quality of Service feature on the DD-WRT firmware seems to keep the experience smooth and quick for everyone. Although the 10Mbit broadband connection could have something to do with that as well

 

[E1mo]

File transfers are pretty slow though, its always quicker to take an iPod down to your housemates room!