Wireless Network Connection Question

nheather

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Let' say you have a 54Mbps wireless router. And let's assume that it is a perfect world and a wireless device is able to connect at the full 54Mbps.

Now I had always thought that if you have multiple devices, they each esatblish a 54Mbps peer to peer network.

But someone said to me that each device was in contention for a total bandwidth of 54Mbps, so if you had 10 devices operating continuously they could only average 5.4Mbps.

I do appreciate that network traffice isn't continous.

But the basic question is whether all devices are contending for a total of 54Mbps or whether they each have a 54Mbps connection.

Many thanks,

Nigel
 
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But the basic question is whether all devices are contending for a total of 54Mbps or whether they each have a 54Mbps connection.

All devices are contending - also, only a single device can be transmitting at any one time, this reduces the available bandwidth (i.e. it's 54mbps half-duplex).
 

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