Probably ok, but depends on the traffic mix and vendor sla. We run one of the sflan nodes in the Richmond off a speakeasy 6M/768k dsl with no complaints, but it is lightly loaded.
You might look at the traffic from any similar classroom setups on campus. This should handle web and email traffic, but won't handle video conferencing in addition. Regardless of bandwidth, I would not put an important location on an SBC residential service connection because of their mediocre support. Lastly, you might want to check the line condition as many ADSL will rate-adapt and you may not get anywhere close to the maximum service speeds. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Godshall Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:05 PM To: Sameer Verma Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] DSL for classrooms... 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 _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
