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 -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Beach Access Software Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:33 AM To: List Subject: [dba-Tech] One (router) to Many (users) 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 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.3/446 - Release Date: 9/12/2006 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com