Is this a new record?

[bobbyc]

I have a agere AP with 63 associations, however 4 of those associations are other towers with a total of 85 of their own associations, and 2 of those towers have a customer on their LAN.
3 of the towers line up with the agere AP, so they are getting their own 5.8ghz backhauls next week.
Crazy, huh? 63 assosiations on a AP with 4 of those associations being very busy.
I think a main factor of why we have gotten by this long by doing it this way is because we don't offer unmetered access.
Bob C

[lonnie]

Very nice. :D

[georgew]

What's your bandwidth like?

I sell T1's, and I have more T1's sold than you have off of that AP... and all of the bandwidth together is only 6 megabits... so a bunch of unmetered users still don't consume that much. I have a theory that the users will use the same bandwith no matter what. Slowing the traffic down just eats cpu cycles, and slows everythig down.

That is as long as you don't have kaza servers or unfettered viruses.

On the other hand, if you only have a T1 of bandwidth, I suppose you might have to so something to make it last.

[bobbyc]

We have plenty of bandwidth from T1's and SDSL lines.
I'm just amazed that we have gotten by on the radio end of things with all these towers fed off this AP that has 65 of its own associations... with minimal packetloss except during concurrent uploads... all our customers radios are associated at 11mbps.
That, and the fact that we don't offer unlimited access(plus we watch our network for constant uploads such as viruses, kazaa, etc) is probably why we have gotten by till now by feeding these towers from a AP meant to service customers.
Bob C