[dba-Tech] One (router) to Many (users)

JWColby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Sep 13 09:26:22 CDT 2006


A wireless router will have an effective bandwidth of less than 52 mBIT /
sec.  Given that the average cable connection is <3-5 mbit / sec, the
wireless device itself will not be the bottleneck.

Issues:

1) Security. The wireless router effectively creates one big network,
linking all of the computers using that router together into one network.
Each user should have their own firewall which then feeds THEIR wireless
feed into this.
2) ISP Bandwidth.  At 3 mbit . Sec, it only takes one yahoo uploading or
downloading files, listening to music, watching video clips etc to suck up
most of the available bandwidth.
3) Legalities.  AFAIK it is quite legal for a single business (or home) to
do this within their business.  To group businesses on one feed is
questionable.  Whether the individual business would be liable I don't know,
but it is considered "theft of service" and the cable companies don't like
this.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

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Dear List:

 

I have a friend who is a clinical psychologist and is in an office with
several other offices adjacent.  One of the recent move-ins is married to an
IT type who is going to set up a wireless router.  Then, everybody in these
individual offices can work off of the wireless router and they all have to
pay only one fee to the ISP (in this case AT&T).  

 

How many people can be using one wireless router at a time?  What other
problems might he anticipate from this arrangement? 

 

He gets all of his email from the web, BTW. One account is a Yahoo.  One is
Road Runner which he has at home.  The third one is from someone else but he
picks up the mail from the web.

 

MTIA,

 

Rocky

 

 

Rocky Smolin

Beach Access Software

858-259-4334

www.e-z-mrp.com

 


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