How much bandwidth do you want to allocate to each potential user? It's a simple math formula - if you have 10Mbps down, and you want to provide 1Mbps per user, then you can support 10 users. If you want to support 20 users, then you can assume 512Kbit per user if they all start their sessions at the same time, and are doing roughly the same thing.
QOS would not be a factor inbound, unless you do rate-limiting on the pfsense box itself, limiting each outbound user to a certain cap. There is no such thing as QOS on the public internet, everything is best-effort first-come-first-served. Kim C. Callis wrote: > Very open, but it is because the client usage is so diverse. At the very > low > end of the spectrum is general browsing and email service. On the other > end > of the scope, I have streaming media users, torrent users, etc. I need to > get a rough idea of how many users I can get away with based upon the > limitations of the DSL circuit in place. > > K. > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Matt Fanady <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's a rather open ended question. You can support as many clients >> as your access points can accommodate. What level of service are you >> hoping to provide? >> >> -M@ >> >> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Kim C. Callis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Ok, you have a DSL connection that is 10m/2m. You clients are running >> > 802.11g speeds. What is the maximum number clients that you can >> support? >> > Factor in QOS in the equation... How does the answer change with >> bonding >> in >> > place. Say two DSL connections (same speeds), running through pfsense. >> > >> > -- >> > Kim C. Callis >> > [email protected] >> > _____________________________________ >> > >> > Save the Cheerleader. Save the World. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List >> > To unsubscribe, please visit: >> > http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List >> To unsubscribe, please visit: >> http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org >> > > > > -- > Kim C. Callis > [email protected] > _____________________________________ > > Save the Cheerleader. Save the World. > _______________________________________________ > SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > To unsubscribe, please visit: > http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
