how many laptops we can use at a time with 8Mbps wireless router?

Answer 1

As many connections you have. A router would allocate the connection request anyway. How many do you want to add, 100? I would add no more than 5.

Answer 2

Depends on what you want to do....

Want to access high quality streams on the internet, then one; transfer large amounts of data then two computers etc...

If you are connecting to the internet, just think that a fairly useful internet connection these days start at 1Mbps.. that bandwidth will be theoretically divided between the connected computers... so after about 17 or 18 computers are attached, you have the speed of dialup modem... soo on an 8Mbps 130 something computer will bring the speed down to 56k modem speed. ROUGHLY! ...... this theory breaks down if someone connects to something like a download server which will connect at a specific rate.. this uses up bandwidth and effects the other computers...

As home networks are much faster than an internet connection, sharing BETWEEN computers can be done with little effect on performance, but if you insist on playing bandwidth hungry network games then you will suffer... along with copying large files.

So even though your home network will kick out 254 ip addresses you wont be able to use them all at the same time with a slow 8Mbps connection to the internet.. but they maybe ok sharing files... but yet again it all depends on what you are doing...

hope i helped a little

good luck.

Answer 3

The standard is roughly 255, simply due to the number of local IP adresses that can be given to the router.

Remember, although the router may technically be able to handle 255 concureent connections you will very quickly start to see speed degredation the more you add. At all times remember you are sharing that 8Mbit between everyone on the network.

Answer 4

I have used 4 wifi PC's on my network.

Remember - the PCs are sharing bandwidth from the Wifi transmitter as well as the 8mbs Internet feed, I guess it should take as many as your router can handle, I would say a max of 5 before real performance problems are experienced (for games), and 15 for browsing

Answer 5

I dont know but last christmas we had 3 desk tops and 5 lap tops going all on the one wireless router and they all seemed to be working okay

Answer 6

you can use as many as you want but sometimes it depends on your router as some of them have limited number of connection they can support. But if you use many computers at the same time it will reduce your Internet speed, as the 8Mb will be divided by all PCs. But i think i you wont notice the decrease in speed if you just brows websites on sent/receive emails.
hope you found these information use full.
cheers

Answer 7

As many as your router can handle ....... obviously, the more computers trying to use the connection at the same time, the slower they will be.