"Paul" <paule-nospam@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> We've been asked to provide wireless laptop access for a group of people
> attending a conference. All users will be in one conference room approx
> 30ft x 50ft. Estimate 50 wireless users. They will be doing medical
> imaging type application over the web (i.e. needing lots of bandwidth).
> We're thinking of putting 3 Linksys WAP54G's or WRT54G's in the room
roughly
> in a triangular pattern.
>
> Should we put each one on a different channel (1, 6, and 11) ?
>
> If they all have the same SSID's, what would be the odds of relatively
even
> user distribution across the APs in a room that small?
>
> Perhaps we should use 2 APs with 2 different SSID's and tell people on one
> side of the room to connect to network A and the other side to connect to
> network B?

Maybe the answers so far are for the wrong Q.

is there some easy way to provide Ethernet ports to some of the users, so
you can cut down the number of wireless clients?

in a lot of cases where you have laptops needed for longer access they end
up tethered to a power cable anyway - so you probably have organised power
feeds to part of the room? Otherwise things start to degrade as all the
laptop batteries go flat......

most of the big conference tables at work have a UTP + power feed (or
several for big tables) - so a connection or 2 and a multiport switch will
give users willing to be "tethered" a faster more reliable link - and free
up wireless capacity for those that want / have to use it.
>
> TIA,
> -- Paul
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