Users?

[Ashton]

How many users do you think a 5 MB / sec up and down line could hold? Probably general web surfing and filling out forms.

Also is there a max amount of people that can be held on one router?

[Nightfall]

How many users do you think a 5 MB / sec up and down line could hold? Probably general web surfing and filling out forms.
How many users are you thinking about?


Also is there a max amount of people that can be held on one router?
As many ports as it has ;)

[Ashton]

How many users are you thinking about?


As many ports as it has ;)
probably 50-100 users.... / computers and it would be a wireless connection.

[-=[Juztin]=-]

Seen some companies do up to 250 users per T1 (1.5Mb) for example. But would I recommend that? not necessarily. We currently have a 9M partial DS3 we run ~120 users off of. It's of course going to be a lot faster than the user experience on 1 of 250 users on a T1 line but it can be done.

[Nightfall]

probably 50-100 users.... / computers and it would be a wireless connection.
100 users on a single wireless router would suck :(

Most of them support around 256 simultaneous connections. Think about it this way though, a G router does 54mbps, assuming excellent signal. Divide that by 100 users (only assuming they were all transfering information at the same time, but plan for the worst) and each user will only be able to pull down approx. 55 kilo<b>bytes</b> per second. Which isn't *that* bad for general web browsing, etc. <b>but</b> that is assuming everybody has a 100 percent completely flawless connection to the router -- which probably is not going to happen.

[Ashton]

Hmmm yeah thats a good idea. multiple routers it is i guess then say 20 per router?

[LeonZ]

100 users on a single wireless router would suck :(

Most of them support around 256 simultaneous connections. Think about it this way though, a G router does 54mbps, assuming excellent signal. Divide that by 100 users (only assuming they were all transfering information at the same time, but plan for the worst) and each user will only be able to pull down approx. 55 kilo<b>bytes</b> per second. Which isn't *that* bad for general web browsing, etc. <b>but</b> that is assuming everybody has a 100 percent completely flawless connection to the router -- which probably is not going to happen.

the 54Mb per second is more like 20-30Mb in real life.

[Nightfall]

the 54Mb per second is more like 20-30Mb in real life.
Wouldn't a 54 Megabit connection be 6.75 Megabytes per second? From there I subtracted 1.75 Megabytes to compensate for imperfections to get my "perfect" signal speed.

8 bits in 1 byte.

Maybe I did not subtract enough for overhead/imperfections, shoot me ;) What matters is that 100 users on a single WAP/Wireless Router is waaay to many

Thanks for the correction though :cheers: