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well, it's a deep subject...
Wireless by itself, assuming you aren't hosting any more systems than hardwired, should only count as as many computers as you have.
How do you mean slowing down? If you mean internet access by a single or multiple computer how many computers are you running, especially at the same time?
What type of connection do you have? Broadband? ISDN or Cable? What is the published (or rated) speed claimed?
What are you using on the router/wireless side? And, let's talk computers too, cpu type, memory, and all of the rest of the gory details...
Typically you, the user, are not using all of the available bandwidth on your internet connection. This is especially true of the higher bandwidth connections (Higher Speed ISDN, Cable, or high speed Cable). I'm currently sitting on my couch watching the evening news, and typing this message. I'm sure you can believe that I'm not typing as fast as the 11mbps connection (yep 802.11b) that attaches me to my home network. My network is Cox Cable and usually runs 4.0MB/sec downloads. I have an 802.11b WAP that runs to a single port on my 10/100 8 port Router/switch. (I have an 802.11a+g setup, just need a day to install it. there hasn't been any pain to cause me to do it...). The pipe size is larger than a single computer on 802.11b, so I'm more than happy. In house performance only suffers on printer to my print server.
If you are running two computers, and not just sitting on downloading mass quantities of stuff, you should really not notice a difference. Three or four depending upon usage and connection type. We have three hardwired, one printer server hardwired, and three laptops at times. I also support my neighboor with a line of sight to his bridge with higain antennas at both ends but that's another story...
But still, it should not matter if you are hard wired or wireless, just the number of computer used and type of usage.
If you are having issues with three or less computers I'd suspect you either have additional "free loaders" on your network, or you have setup issues.
lastly, if you have lost the docs for you wireless router you can download almost all of the brands information from the manufacturers website (linksys, d-link, others...)
-soneway
, Mon, 6 Mar 2006 06:11:22, Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:06:05
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