WiFi - one computer at a time - common?
Parked at a campsite on our very first RV trip as a family! Yay! We got an access code for the wifi (Tengo Internet) but each different computer that wants to use it has to "take over" the connect...
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bigdogger wrote:
But if you have four computers connected, you will be using 4 times the bandwidth than a single computer. It would be possible for each of those four connections to be downloading a Netflix HD movie at the same time. The router wouldn't be the chokepoint since any common router can pass much more bandwidth than almost any Internet connection can handle.
Of course, the router can pass it to the connected computer, but the bandwidth is limited by the computer's internet connection to the camp wifi. An 802.11g connection will draw a maximum of 54 Mbps.
4 computers downloading netflix will download at 1/4th the speed of 1 computer downloading netflix. Each of them will have a 54 Mbps connection to the router, and an even faster wired connection from router to hosted computer, but that final computer-to-camp wifi will be a 54 Mbps bottleneck. So the 4 connected computers will get about 13 Mbps each.
The overall bandwidth (per second) will be the same (just take 4 times as long)
The worst thing this strategy can/will do is increase the radio interference on the limited number of router frequencies available.
