7mb/s, Will it be an Issue?

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by magnets

...... having an alliance partner using two cameras WILL lower your availible bandwidth

I'm going to throw a blanket statement RED Flag on this one.

Originally Posted by yash101

I did a bandwidth test and found that streaming from two cameras with 38% compression, 640, 480, 600 KB/s were following through the network, which equals to 4.8 mbps. That means that the 7 mbps might a problem of you are using two cameras. We used an M1013 and M1011 for this test

And, sorry yash101, you get one too.

My point is not that you are wrong, but you didn't include any qualifiers. If you limit your comments to only one configuration, image processing on the DS, then your comments are fair. That said, you may want to consider alternatives.

My example is going to be my own team. Two cameras this year. One USB, processed on-board with a PCDuino. (BTW, the total cost for this set-up is almost half the cost of an Axis camera alone.) The other is a Axis 603, again processed on-board by the cRio, but for only one or two 320X240 frames at 30% compression, then turned off.

Essentially 0Mb/s bandwidth used with two cameras. There are ways to get around the 7Mb/s BW limits w/o disrupting the WiFi network.