All bandwidth going thru 1 PC

DoctorPC · Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Philippines

Hi,

Hope this isn't a stupid question.

I'm trying to help a local ISP that wants to deploy wireless 1st in just a few locations and then grow to more and more hotspots, using most likely Centralized Network Topology. Since it appears all the traffic is routed through a single PC running FirstSpot (compared to a hardware solution), won't these slow down the total bandwidth available to clients at times? (Server would be something like P4 2.8 - 512MB running XP)

Respectfully,

DoctorPC

kevin · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 442

You can set up a toplogy where only outgoing internet traffic will pass through FirstSpot while the returning traffic will take another route.

We can send you a sample toplogy diagram on that.

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DoctorPC · Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Philippines

Yes please send me a diagram, with some text explaining it in laymen terms (as much as possible).

Respectfully,

DoctorPC

PS (The concept sounds good, we just want to make sure it will fit the needs, & yes we are aware of the trial download, but don't know if we can create a testbed that would accurately simulate the real world conditions.)