Maximum of how many wireless cards

Denis Vlasenko vda at port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Sat Jul 10 16:39:38 EDT 2004


On Saturday 10 July 2004 08:59, nondito wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maximum of how many wireless cards I can use in a
> hostap box?
>
> I have 6 PCI slots, can the driver support loading
> upto 6 wireless cards?

I used 3 cards at once. No apparent problems.

> Is it a goood idea to use 4 PCI cards with channel 1,
> 5, 10 and 14 (licensed) when using outdoor directional
> antenna for each interface, or the overlaps are too
> much?
>
> Anyone have any ideas or first-hand experience on
> these topics!

Channels 1 and 5 would interfere. Only 1 and 6 wouldn't.
In other words, you need at least 4 channels in between.
Basically, you can use 1,6,11 and 16th channel. ;)

No, I don't know how to set 16th channel.
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vda




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