topic Re: BSS interference with 2 Laptops in Wireless https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/bss-interference-with-2-laptops/m-p/1133698#M164177 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>NO, but sometimes yes. </P><P></P><P>Wifi is a shared medium, so some sort of collision avoidance mechanism must be implemented. This mechanism uses small RTS and CTS packets to negotiate who can send and receive. There are still the occasional collisions, but they are normally pretty small. </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:34:10 GMT Matthew Ratliff 2009-01-06T15:34:10Z BSS interference with 2 Laptops https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/bss-interference-with-2-laptops/m-p/1133697#M164176 <P>I am confused. If I have a WAP at home and I want to get internet access from two laptops... will there be interference (or collitions) if both try to download something at the same time?. I think yes because both would use the same channel to communicate with the AP.</P> Sat, 03 Jul 2021 23:56:44 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/bss-interference-with-2-laptops/m-p/1133697#M164176 fjcardenas-1 2021-07-03T23:56:44Z Re: BSS interference with 2 Laptops https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/bss-interference-with-2-laptops/m-p/1133698#M164177 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>NO, but sometimes yes. </P><P></P><P>Wifi is a shared medium, so some sort of collision avoidance mechanism must be implemented. This mechanism uses small RTS and CTS packets to negotiate who can send and receive. There are still the occasional collisions, but they are normally pretty small. </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:34:10 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/bss-interference-with-2-laptops/m-p/1133698#M164177 Matthew Ratliff 2009-01-06T15:34:10Z