Airport Extreme Bandwidth Question...

[Jerry LeVan]

Hi,

Does anyone have an idea of how many clients an Airport Extreme ( 802.11n)
can support before throughput starts to decline?

Thanks,

Jerry
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[Alex Satrapa-2]

On 11 Nov 2009, at 07:33, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea of how many clients an Airport Extreme  
> ( 802.11n)
> can support before throughput starts to decline?

Theoretically 50, is what I've read, your mileage will vary since one  
busy client can choke everyone else out, and with 50 clients on the  
network you won't be doing much in the way of transferring files.

Alex

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[LuKreme]

On 10-Nov-2009, at 13:33, Jerry LeVan wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea of how many clients an Airport Extreme ( 802.11n)
> can support before throughput starts to decline?

If one of them is me? One. :)

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[Andrew Merenbach-2]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> On 11 Nov 2009, at 07:33, Jerry LeVan wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have an idea of how many clients an Airport Extreme ( 802.11n)
>> can support before throughput starts to decline?
>
> Theoretically 50, is what I've read, your mileage will vary since one busy client can choke everyone else out, and with 50 clients on the network you won't be doing much in the way of transferring files.
>
> Alex

As a slight tangent to which the original subject may still apply, anyone have an idea why Apple haven't added a bandwidth-throttling option to their AirPort offerings? or is it in the latest models? It's a major sore point for me, and was almost a deal-breaker.  Not that speculation on this mailing list will change anything, but I'm just curious whether the idea has some holes in it.

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