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Bandwidth increase

DROR.MAROM
Level 1
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Hi,

Dose someone knows if I can increase bandwidth with two AP? (From 54mb >> 108mb)

also,what is the best way to do it?

Thanks,

Dror

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scottmac
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Level 10

From the perspective of getting 2X bandwidth from one client: NO ... can't do it.

From the perspective of having more bandwidth, so you can support more clients, then Yes ...

By putting several APs in one area, each on a different channel (1,6,and 11 are recommended) and setting the clients to use specific channels, you can double or triple your client count for a given area.

Good Luck

Scott

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the fast response.

If I want to double the bandwidth from point to point scenario

Dose it possible??

Thanks,

Dror

It's not something I've ever tried, but it's conceivable that if you set up two pairs of wireless bridges, and fed them with a router (at each end), that the router(s) would load-share the parallel links.

The issues with this is *how* the router decides the path: simple round-robin / alternating ~probably~ will work OK .... but Ideally you'd want a system that sends the traffic down the least-loaded link ... more of a loadbalance than a load share.

If the traffic is a good statistical mix of packet sizes, then straight-up load-sharing would probably do the trick ...

How many hosts at the end-point, and what is the nature of the application from the perspective of amount of traffic, sensitivity to latency, packet sizes, etc (i.e., VoIP uses small packets ~ 200 bytes, database-style apps tend to use large packets ~1500 bytes).

Let use know and we can take the next leap.

Scott

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