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

It sounds like a small office where number of users (generally < 250) isn't
going to be the issue but rather traffic versus bandwidth.

Of course if everyone is pitching in to cover the cost of the one connection
then they can always increase the bandwidth. (IRRC AT&T's DSL goes up to 6MB
download rates now).

Think of it as a public access point at Starbucks or the like - they can
have hundreds on at once.

HTH
John B.

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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.