According to Sameer Verma, > Folks, > I need your opinion on something we are looking at for a remote campus > location. > Will a DSL (6.0Mbps down/384kbps up) be sufficient to support, say two > classrooms (about 80 students on two 11g APs) and 1/2 dozen office desktops? > > If you have setup similar to this, I'd appreciate any input.
I would think so, particularly if you set up a cache box (running e.g. squid). Classes tend to go to a site in groups, so after the first person hits a page hits everyone else gets it from the cache. Or look at it this way. Worst case, if 100 people were all hitting the web (and doing a large download each) at the exact same moment, each one would get 6000 Kbps / 100 = 60Kbps. Still better than the best phone modem. And web is async, so you get to use the bandwidth the others arent't. So if 10% are likely to be hitting sites at any given moment, that's still 600Kbps each, which is the bandwidth of a fairly typical home DSL connection. _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
