How many users will an access point support? Learn some methods that help you answer this question.

When deploying a wireless LAN, you need to know how many users the access points will support. This helps in determining whether the wireless LAN will bear a specific application. For example, the wireless LAN may need to handle twenty users accessing the Internet from an airport concourse. Or, hundreds of users may need access to the wireless LAN from a convention center. Because of the shared medium access protocol of 802.11, however, capacity determination becomes a daunting task.