Ya know, I went back through some old notes the other day...info about
Inet service specs, $ amount and providers over the last 15 years. It's
astounding how much things have changed! I found where I signed up for
an "always on" cable connection with 800Kbps down and 200Kbps up back in
2002 and I even made the note "Fast!" Before that was dial on demand
DSL, which I think was 512Kb down and 128Kb up.
Then in 2008 I went to 2Mb down, and in 2012 to 10Mb down, and 2014 to
50Mb down. But as you know, the need always rises to meet the capability!
200Mb seems insane right now, but in 5 years... just amazing.
Mike
Ted Roche wrote:
Traffic shaping is your friend.
Many routers let you prioritize and/or maximize the amount of traffic
by type/protocol/port. Most video players are pretty savvy about
downshifting the resolution/ frames per seconds and caching so viewers
can still have an adequate experience with limited bandwidth.
Obviously, you're not going to put a lot of effort into what is
essentially an employee perk, but 200 Mbps is a lot of bandwidth and
ought to serve the group really well for a long time.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
Ken Dibble wrote:
What does this do to your internet bandwidth?
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
Thanks, Ken.
So far, not seeing an impact, but I do monitor it closely. Especially on
game days in the fall (college football) and of course with the upcoming
Olympics in August it could be an issue.
The owners of the company have a very unique mentality that would best be
described as "we want the employees to like working here" to which I would
add that both of the principals are also big on the employees like them, the
owners. That goes a long way towards permitting and allowing a lot of
behavior that I have long railed against, been ignored, and later proven
right about when the behavior became outrageous. But...as I keep telling
myself, it's not my decision.
If I do detect, and can demonstrate, that the WIFI is creating bandwidth
issues, then there's always the throttling approach, and maybe someday it
will be necessary to discontinue the current free-for-all, but until then I
am finding it far far easier to direct rather than detect and fight. Thanks
for the thought cycles!
Mike Copeland
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