It is possible but not recommended. I would turn down the power on the APs so you have less bleeding. Could you stagger the APs so that you only use three channels, but have four APs? Just put the two APs on the same channel at opposite ends and turn down the power. Also I know for a fact that two Cisco APs can handle 100 users, all streaming audio. We have a Spanish exam that we do yearly that does this without any problems. So I would think if you had three that would be more than enough.
Justin Dover Harpeth Hall School 615-346-0082 The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 2:30 PM -0600 wrote: >On Feb 21, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Urrea, Nick wrote: >> We have a large study room at UC Hastings which accommodates up to >> 150 students. >> On average I see about 80-100 users using the wifi in the room. >> To load balance the wifi in the room I have setup 4 APs. >> Right now we use the 3 non-overlapping 2.4ghz channels, 1, 6, and 11. >> The 4 APs are line of sight with each. >> Do you think it would be a good idea to go to 4 channels instead 3 >> Ex: (1, 4, 8, 11) > >No, if you're using 802.11g. > >If there's searchable archives for this list, you might >be able to find a previous discussion we had on it here. > >Dale > >********** >Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group >discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
