[Wylug-discuss] Adding a wireless router to an existing network

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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, HauntedUnix wrote:

> If you haev an 802.11b router, and say, two machines both downloading at
> the maximum speed (around 600kbps?) from somewhere else on the network.
> Would they have 300kbps each, or 600kbps each?

It's an entirely shared network - think base2, or baseT on a hub, or even
cable modems - so you would in theory get 300 each, though ultimately it
depends on how the collisions actually happen so one machine may or may
not get a bit less or more than the other ....